Links
Related Links
Art Pacific
Guide to specific Asmat artifacts, links to other sites, and a list of books.
www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea/asmat/asmatmap.htm
Indo-Pacific Conservation Alliance Asmat Program
Working as facilitators to our local partner, the Asmat community-based adat organization, Lembaga Musyawarah Adat Asmat, or LMAA. Our strategy is to empower Asmat communities to actively and sustainably manage their natural resources at a time of rapid political change, when their globally important ecosystems are under high threat from destructive commercial logging, fishing, the illegal species trade, and other forms of resource extraction.
The Pacific Arts Association
An international organization devoted to the study of all the arts of Oceania.
www.pacificarts.org/index.html
ASAO - Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
An international organization dedicated to compariative studies of the Pacific topics.
National Geographic On Assignment
"The Hidden World of Asmat" In this region of New Guinea there are no roads, only rivers; these are some of the most pristine rainforests in the world. Boats are the only way to get around these crocodile-crowded waters.
www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/photogallery/asmat/
Papua Web
Informational network forstudent research, development workers, community leaders, government agencies on issues relevant to Papua.
Bulletin of Irian Jaya
Journal published by the Department of Anthropology at Cenderawasih University in cooperation with the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Arsip Dokumen- Papuaweb Document Archive
List of new books, reports, articles.
www.papuaweb.org/dlib/index.html
Explorers Club
The
Explores Club, an international, multidisciplinary, professional
organization offers opportunities for people to learn more about remote
parts of the world including Irian Jaya. Members are part of a network
of people with diverse knowledge and expertise. Through the Explorers
Club individuals learn about opportunities to travel as well as to
connect with people who have lived and work with the Asmat.
http://www.explorers.org/expeditions/151hischier2006/151hischier2006.php
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Explores Club, an international, multidisciplinary, professional organization offers opportunities for people to learn more about remote parts of the world including Irian Jaya. Members are part of a network of people with diverse knowledge and expertise. Through the Explorers Club individuals learn about opportunities to travel as well as to connect with people who have lived and work with the Asmat.
Indo-Pacific Conservation Alliance
Preserving living landscapes in Asmat, Papua. IPCA is working with locale Asmat leaders and communities to preserve their forests, rivers and seas as "living landscapes" that both, protect biodiversity and support and sustain local livelihoods.
http://www.indopacific.org/pdf/IPCA%20Asmat%20Brochure.pdf
The Asmat / Special Topics Page
The Metropolitan Museum has an outstanding collection of Asmat art, the majority of which was collected in 1961 by Michael C. Rockefeller. wood carving is a flourishing tradition among the Asmat, and wood carvers are held in high esteem..
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/asma/hd_asma.htm
Jean Pierre Dutilleux - The Asmat (The Fine Arts of War)
Personal website includes photography, filmography, books and work in environmental activism..
