Video Analysis: Monsoon Wedding

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• The video was titled Monsoon Wedding it was about a family who was preparing their daughter’s wedding that was arranged in India. The woman that was arranged to get married was having an affair with a married TV producer. After she got caught in the rain by police with the TV producer she told her fiancé what she had been doing and he left the marriage in her hands. She decided it was over with the TV producer and she began to let herself fall in love and get married to her fiancé. The celebration is a four day celebration of parties and through that we see the love story between the housemaid and the wedding planner of the four day event. We also see the more western life show through when we find out that one of the daughters was molested …show more content…

The concept of biological residence relates because the family lives with their offspring. The bridewealth is seen when the male’s side of the family brought gifts to the bride’s family. Marriage alliances are formed because they made it known that everyone was family now. Nuclear family relates because of the married couple and their offspring live at home. Gender sex roles are seen by the men dealing with the labor and the women are doing like the housemaid work. Cultural construction of gender is also an issue like the father doesn’t want the son to be a Chief because that isn’t a respectable job for a man. This video is close to chapter twenty Uterine Families and the Women’s Community but it’s not like it in the sense that after the daughter is married all ties are cut off with the family and the women don’t speak to their fathers they learn from their mother and grandmothers they are considered useless. In the video the father takes pride in his daughters and even stuck up for her in the end. It’s doesn’t contradict what the authors have said because everything that I have read is different for every culture even from one village to the next so I wouldn’t say it contradicts the authors it proves that there are many different

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