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Albania - Thethi - Pashke Sokol Ndocaj cries at the grave of her father
Pashke Sokol Ndocaj cries at the grave of her father. Since the death of her father and brothers, Pashke has lived as a man in the ancient traditions of Avowed Virgins of Albania, where women 'become' men to head the family and renounce their former sex..Thethi, Albania 1996
Author: ©Stuart Freedman
©Stuart Freedman
Photo size: 17.5 Mpixels (50 MB uncompressed) - 5065x3451 pixels (16.9x11.5 in / 42.9x29.2 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Albania, ancient, avowed, Balkan, Besa, Canon of Lek, cross, cry, custom, emotion, female, gender, grave, grief, High Albania, Lek, lesbian, peasant, pledge, sadness, sex, sworn virgin, tradition, virgins, Virgjineshe, woman
Published in: Albania - Avowed Virgins