Celebracion Del Matrmonio Analysis

Janae Roberts
Anthro 102
Final Exam Take Home
Section ONE: Context, Ethnography, Ethnology
1.1 Background [8 points] The two cultural groups I chose to do were Hispanic and Italian culture.
The film ‘Celebracion del Matrmonio’.The hispanic marriage culture reflect the customs of Spain, Mexico, and North Africa. These customs were brought in 1598. The film bases on a village of El Rito in 1983. Following the entire marriage ceremony shows the way hispanics intergrate their religion into the ceremony.
Kinship- a association of relatives into that you are born and married to
Descent group-any kinship whose members share a direct line of descent from a real (historical) or fictional common ancestor
Unilineal descent-descent traced exclusively

Paulinus Festival and the time frame that they are focusing on is 1995.The cultural group that is portrayed in the film are Italians. The performance of italian traditions in this movie gave me this impression.
Polytheism- the belief in multiple gods and/or goddesses, as contrasted with monotheism- the belief in one god or goddess
Pantheon- all the gods and goddesses of a people
Art-the creative use of the human imagination to aesthetically interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process
Performance art- a creatively expresses promotion of ideas by artful means dramatically staged to challenge opinion and/or provoke purposeful action
Visual art- art created primarily for visual perception, ranging from etchings and paintings on various surfaces (including the human body) to sculptures and weavings made with an array of materials
Folklore-a term coined by 19th-century scholars studying the unwritten stories and other artistic traditions of rural peoples to distinguish between “folk art” and the “fine art” of the literate

A number of men outside are outside at event that seems like a traditional family gathering. They are lifting a platform that is holding a tower while people are standing on top of it. A type of carnival or fair seems to be going on around the family gathering. The infrastructure shown in the film are buildings such as appartments. The roads and power supplies were normal everyday ones that are seen throughout america. I found it hard to determine the social structure, no one was doing anything majorly different than the other. The superstructure I believe it the tradition of the males having to lift the