Albania women-men

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Albania is still alive the tradition of "remaking" of women in men - they are a few thousand. They take the men's names, wear men's clothes and behave like men. By their pushes Eve - a set of archaic, tribal laws.

In this collection you will learn about the causes of the emergence of this phenomenon and see pictures of the "Women-Men" photographer Jill Peters.

1. Despite the fact that a third of Albanians - Christians (half of whom are Catholics, the other half orthodox) medieval body of law applies to them. This Eve is not surprising - like the laws of self-preservation for the nation has virtually all rock, closed societies - by adat in Chechnya bilus in the Basque country. Another thing is that in Albania's Eve continues to define the life of the entire society and not only its archaic layers.

2. One of the main components of Eve - a blood feud. Here is a description of everyday life in Albania's Eve in 1990, which gave the newspaper Die Welt.

3. "More than half of the Albanian population in the northern mountainous areas do not go out of their homes. They are afraid of a blood feud. The fact is that if one person is guilty of a family car extends to his family.

4. In the desecrated honor in Albania can only be paid with blood, and for the shed blood - Again, only blood. After recent changes, this law came into force again, with less state control and management of the territory, the greater the power of gaining the laws vendetta.

5. Plans vendetta cherish for years. In the village Bleran, located near the border with Montenegro, was killed Gerg Capaclia. For 13 years before his death, he pushed on the street Huck representative family, and is an insult of the Albanian code of honor is washed away by the blood. Capaclia probably would have been killed back then, but the iron hands of dictator Enver Hoxha reliably protect Albanians from tradition. Gergen went to Greece, and when he returned, the two brothers are vitally offended a representative of the family of Huck shot him in the street.

6. The younger brother Gergely - Pepin, the former with him wail and threw a stone at the killers, who, without thinking twice, and shot him. Now it was the turn of Huck family. One of the five brothers Gergely still shoot one of Huck, but along the way, was shot dead and a policeman who tried to stop the violence. Thus, Capaclia family acquired to itself of two natural enemies: to Huck added another victim's family of the police.

7. The only way to stay alive for a man sentenced to death - bezvylazno sit at home. According to the Albanian code of Eve, blood can not kill the enemy at his house, so for a family type Capaclia house remains the only salvation. Now Albania about 10 thousand. Man locked in such a way in their homes.

8. The blood feud is only the head of the family clan that has to stop in the event of intent to establish the world to go voluntarily to the hostile clans and offer their blood for peace and your family peace of mind. If the second party agrees, they either kill the valiant champion of the world, or give your word - "the devil", specifying the period during which they will not touch the members of the clan sued for peace, before the final decision. "Besa" means the beginning of a possible world, which, in turn, means forgiveness, often measured in the number of transferred personal property and livestock.

9. It is also possible appeal to the recognized authority. Such is, for example, Henri Ndreka Pietri, who spent many years in re-education camps. After the change, he headed the Union of political prisoners and has become famous for its ability to stop the hatred and stop the blood feud. Pietri is not calling to give up vendetta general, believing that it attaches to the Albanian real laws of their ancestors, the real essence of which is now forgotten and distorted.

10. In the past, says Pietri, the offending family hid in the mountains and waited for the council of elders. Elders are usually punished only killers and the direct perpetrators and did not touch the whole family. It is this tradition and is going to recover Pietri. "

11. Today, of course, Albania, to some extent Europeanized, but the life of Eve remained. In particular, according to paragraph 88, Eve admits heir son, not a daughter, in that case, if the family has no sons-heirs. Daughter at the same time can only be a "burnesha" that is "man-woman" ": take an oath to remain chaste and not to marry, and that oath shall not be violated before the end of her life. The only way a woman could become head of the family and official heir. Burnesha well received within the community, they even admired for willpower ... Burnesha dress like men and behave like men and enjoy equal rights with men - that's just can not have children.

12. And given the fact that hundreds or even thousands of Albanian families because of blood feud deprived sons-heirs, "burnesha" - a very common phenomenon. Their exact number in Albania, no one knows, but usually count goes to thousands - at least 3-5 thousand.