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Albania - Thethi - Pashke Sokol Ndocaj comes to greet a neighbour and his wife on the road
Pashke Sokol Ndocaj comes to greet a neighbour and his wife on the road. 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
Author: ©Stuart Freedman
©Stuart Freedman
Photo size: 17.5 Mpixels (50 MB uncompressed) - 5166x3380 pixels (17.2x11.3 in / 43.7x28.6 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Albania, ancient, avowed, Balkan, Besa, Canon of Lek, custom, drink, female, gender, High Albania, lesbian, peasant, pledge, sex, sworn virgin, tradition, virgins, Virgjineshe, woman
Published in: Albania - Avowed Virgins