Dadi and her Family

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Dadi and her Family
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Focuses on a grandmother (Dadi) in a Jat farm
family in Haryana India.

• 1982 by Michael Camerini and Rina Gill
• Dadi (grandmother)
• family life and kinship relations in India.
• her family her husband, her sons, her
  daughters-in-law, and her grandchildren
• organizes household work as well as celebrations
• cannot fully control, the constantly changing
  forces holding the family together as well as
  threatening to break up the family and to divide
  and separate the family property.

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Consider these questions as you watch the film

• What are the "traditional" functions of an
  extended (joint) family in India as depicted in
  this film?
• What factors cause an extended (joint) family to
  divide or break up?
• How does dowry function in this society?
• How does this family structure enhance or detract
  from the family's economic status?
• How do post-marital residence rules affect family
  relations?
• In particular, pay attention to the role and
  status of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law.
• What are the roles of women in this society? How
  do they change throughout a person's life? In
  what way is the birth of girls and boys valued in
  this culture?

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