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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji | 2012<br />
Kamal Deo performs the lengha dance at Arvendra and Bhawna’s wedding. Men performing wedding dances dressed as women is tradition in some Indo-Fijian communities. A cane cutter who lives with his wife and daughter, he earns more money as a wedding dancer with the nickname “Gorilla,” in demand throughout Fiji, than he does cutting cane.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Premila Wati Kumar places money into a basket on her cousin's head, as part of a women's celebration during her son's wedding
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Bhawna says goodbye to her relatives before she leaves her home to go with Arvendra after their wedding
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Arvendra Kumar returns home for his wedding and shares an emotional moment with his mother, Premila Wati. Arvendra works in Latoka as a branch manager for an insurance company based in Suva.
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  • Woolgoolga, Australia | 2011<br />
Sikhs gather for a wedding at the Guru Nanak Temple. Woolgoolga is home to the largest Sikh community in Australia, many of whom are banana growers. Sikhs took up banana farming in Australia in the 1940s when mechanization came to the sugar cane industry in Queensland, where many of them had worked as laborers. Today, the Sikh community in Woolgoolga is prosperous, having diversified into blueberries, hydroponic vegetables, and other business ventures.
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  • Labasa, Fiji. Arvendra Kumar and his male relatives wait for his bride
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  • Ojochal, Costa Rica: Surrounded by friends and family, filmmaker Sharat Raju and filmmaker, lawyer, and community activist Valarie Kaur are bathed in turmeric paste as part of their wedding rituals near her parents home in Costa Rica. They live in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Uvita, Costa Rica: Sharat Raju faces his fiancée Valarie’s relatives who block his passage to the wedding ceremony, demanding money in exchange.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Preparing kava (crushed yaqoni root mixed with water, also called grog) to serve ar Arvendra's wedding
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  • Labasa, Fiji | 2012<br />
Bhawna’s relatives dress her in her wedding sari during her marriage ceremony to Arvendra. Arvendra’s parents work in the cane fields, while he is a manager in an insurance company. Bhawna studied at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji’s capital city. Like most of their generation of Indo-Fijians, they will work in professions far from the cane fields.
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  • Gomathi and Ashok are doused with water by their children as they renew their wedding vows as part of the celebration of Ashok's 60th birthday. Manalapan, NJ
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