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Films
2 Films
Keywords
“Gender Role and Identity”
and
“Marriage”
x
Country of production
“United States”
x
Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
x
films with a digital version
1
short films
1
films available on demand
1
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
East Africa
1
Country
China
1
Kenya
1
Keywords
Family / Kinship
2
Gender Role and Identity
2
x
Marriage
2
x
Social Change
1
Directors
MacDougall, David
1
MacDougall, Judith
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
1
Seaman, Gary
1
Song, Zhifang
1
Series
Song Family Village
1
Turkana Conversations
1
Country of production
Australia
1
China
1
United States
2
x
Year of production
1981
1
2009
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Song Family Village Takes a Bride
2009
27
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
Most weddings in the village still reflect traditional patterns of patrilineal descent and patrilocal residence. The bride leaves her natal home to marry into her husband’s village, where she is a
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Social Change
A Wife Among Wives
1981
72
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
David MacDougall
.
This segment of the trilogy on the Turkana of northern Kenya (see ‘Lorang’s Way’ and ‘The Wedding Camels’ above) evolves around the role of women in the society. The audience follows the
East Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Family / Kinship