Section
Section of National Traditions & Folklore Archive
A few words
The Section focuses on chronicling, studying but also on stressing various aspects and expressions of folk culture. From the moment of its establishment, the section followed a methodology of collection of “folklore material” in order to preserve it, and of field research for the recording of local folklore phenomena.
Photo Gallery

From the "Kalogeros" ritual in Meliki Imathias, during Apokries (Carnival) 1976. (Photo printed in the publication Folklore Records, Book No4, The Kalogeros, an important custom from Thrace, Lefteris Drandakis, Athens 2018)

The "kykles" circle dance at Houliarades Ioanninon in September 1991. (Photo printed in the publication Improvisation in Greek Folk Dancing, Lefteris Drandakis, 1993)

Big and small Lazarines prepare to begin singing the ayermi, the traditional carols for Lazarus Saturday, in Aiani Kozanis in 1976. (Photo: L. Drandakis. Photo printed in the publication Voices of Western Macedonia, Aiani-Lefkopigi-Sarakina, 2005)