Jesco white and Yanomami

1. Remote Cultures
1) Overall Impression of both cultures
The first video were a about a nomadic group of native people called
The Yanomami, also called Yanomama that live in the Amazon rainforest on the
border between Venezuela and Brazil. The second video shows Jesco white, a man
known for his way of dancing Clogging that live in the Appalachian Mountains in
West Virginia; He became famous after a documentary called Dancing Outlaw
2) Implications (social, political, legal, religious, economics, others)
Yanomami people were divided between women and men, therefore all
activities are divided between the sexes; the men are responsible for hunting and
protect the people in the village while women are responsible for harvesting and
raising children. In the video they show that they communicate with their gods after
consuming a drug taken plantain leaf. Also they show a bit of their religion when
they do a funeral of a man; their funerals consist of cremate for the dead and drink
its ashes while the deceased goodbye. For being a nomadic group its economy is
based on what they build and obtained from nature, they also have few possessions
because their nomadic status. Video also can see represented political implications
when the American visitor agrees to marry a girl you have just 14 years, fit was
shocking because for our culture that would be illegal but in native cultures as
Yanomami marrying at a young age it is totally acceptable and expected. We can see
also a lot of domestic violence and sexual abuse to single women. In general this
culture totally depends on the nature and very unify.
On the other hand the Jesco White’s video shows the very rural life of a man
with personality disorder, he believe to be three distinct personalities, Jesse (the
nice one) , Jesco (the violent and dangerous) , and Elvis (like the famous singer).
He is very known for his way of dancing a mix of tap and clog dancing that is
native to Appalachia. His culture was very rural and poor, it seems that he was in
charge of the family even when he seem to be struggling with drug addiction and his
mental disorder. His life is surround by alcohol, drugs, dance and violence. In my
opinion I that his culture was left behind from modern society; the documentary
show how he and his family live in the very country and empty side of West Virginia.
3) How do they compare to yours
I think both cultures are very from our culture especially from Yanomami
culture, we are totally dependent on technology while they depend on the nature,
we have a comprehensive language while they have a language which you can count
as high as the number 3. On the other hand we are not that different from Jesco
culture I just think they don't like to follow the rules that our society are drive by.
4) Similarities between both cultures
In my opinion both cultures have a simple life where you they live their life as
the time comes, they don't expect to be someone important they just concentrate in
dancing or hunting. They are also not that adapt to social rules.

2. 5) How do you think those cultures were created
In my opinion I think these cultures were created for themselves. Yanomami’s
were a group of people living in the Amazon and between each other invented their
own language, economy, social organization, laws and rituals while the White’s
culture was originate from American culture but because they are located in the
very country side they create their own type of dancing and their own rules.
6) What would it take to integrate those cultures to ours?
I would like that my culture appreciate the nature as the Yanomami culture
and that we were more unify as culture as they are