Two Spirit People Video Analysis

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From the video “Two Spirit People”, different people talk about being “two spirits”, their beliefs on it and sexual orientation. In the video, all speakers voices are according to their sex, but their physical appearance says something else. The first speaker is Benjamin, he has long hair, which he puts in pigtails and added pink hair accessories to it. He is wearing a gold long drop earring, a necklace, and lots of gold rings that look to be mostly for females. His face also seems as though he has applied make up and his eyebrows are neatly done. To him, being a two spirited person means that the person can see further than the physical world because the person can see in both direction (male and female). He states that Berdache meant a male slave kept for sexual purposes. (It is a term used to categorize human behavior that …show more content…
He has a male voice, a bit of a deformed nose, and has short neat hair. He explains being “two spirited” in the Zuni culture. He talks about a man who was identified as two spirited and he was raw (is how they were born into the world) and cooked (after a person becomes other than his gender and is not as he or she was born). The two spirited person participates in different activities and later focus on what they want to do; like pottery, weaving etc. And when the person dies he is buried as both genders, that which he identifies as and that which he was born as. He als talks about a child ritual that the Zuni culture practices for children. To them (Zuni), a boy wasn’t required to be warrior, if he wanted to stay home and help with the women he was more than welcome to do that. The boy is then considered Berdache when certain behaviors are was noticed by the mother and grandmother at the ages of 5-7, through the things they liked to do. The mothers and grand mothers start teaching, training and socializing the young boy on what was considered appropriate for a

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