Resumen de L 'albero del latte. La donna nel diritto consuetudinario albanese

Donato Martucci

• Beginning with the early twentieth century, several scholars have written a variety of customary rules that governed all aspects of life of the inhabitants of the mountains of northern Albania. These customs, known as Kanun, operating in a social context that had as its cornerstone the patrilineage of farnily groups, exogamy and virilocal residence after marriage. In this context, the article focuses on investigating what was the role of women and what her rights and her duties from birth to death