Browsing The Asmat by Title
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The Asmat : spirits, shields, symmetry
(Wichita State University Graduate School., 2005-04-22) -
The Asmat of New Guinea: a research and information website of the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology
(2008-12)At present, there are several books written on the Asmat of New Guinea, as well as many artifactual collections throughout the world, both large and small. However, this information is scattered, poorly presented, and ... -
Asmat Presentation - Lambda Alpha Symposium April 7, 2007
(2009-04-30)A presentation by the Director of the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology, Jerry Martin, about the museum's field collecting trip to the Asmat region of New Guinea Island. Record at the Lambda Alpha Symposium - April 7, 2007. -
The changing Asmat world: a survey of cultural and artistic change from 1950-2001
(Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology, 2008-05)This paper documents the effects of rapid culture transition in a culture that had few elements of change imposed upon them. It is usually very difficult to approximate causative relationships initiated by culture change, ... -
Lives of Our Ancestors - An Asmat Bis Ceremony
(2009-04-16)This video describes the preparations and performance of the climax of an Asmat Bis cermony as practiced by the people of Papua, Indonesia - the Western Side of New Guinea Island. -
Lives of Our Ancestors - An Asmat Bis Ceremony (Speech Outtakes)
(2009-04-17)This is an outtake from the Lives of Our Ancestors film. It is a much longer version of the speech given in that film and contains much ethnographic information about the preparations and process of a bisj ceremony. -
Tifa - An Asmat Drum
(2009-04-16)This video presents the carving of an Asmat drum, called a tifa. It was filmed in the summer of 2007 by Troy Belford and Jerry Martin.