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TRADITA E MOÇME E AHENGUT TË QUAJTUR “DHJETËSAHATË”
THE PRIMORDIAL TRADITION OF WOMEN MEETINGS CALLED "DHJETËSAHATË” (TEN HOURS)

Author(s): Arbnora Dushi
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore
Published by: Instituti Albanologjik i Prishtinës
Keywords: PRIMORDIAL TRADITION ; WOMEN MEETINGS ; DHJETËSAHATË (TEN HOURS)

Summary/Abstract: Major changes in society have led many primordial customs and traditions that had produced the circumstances and ways of living, today to remain in the past. One of them is the beano tradition of women so-called "Dhjetësahatë" (Ten hours), characteristic for the town of Gjakova, which shows from the own name that women meet an stay together for ten hours. Meetings that were held in such cases family joys, childbearing, marriage, circumcision, were characterized with particular organization, the clothes, the culture of food, music and dance style.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 39
  • Page Range: 153-165
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Albanian