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
Snapshot from the first trip of the newly-formed Folklore Archive to Steni in Euboea in 1963
Snapshot from the first trip of the newly-formed Folklore Archive to Steni in Euboea in 1963
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)
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)
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)
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)
All the icons lined up for the procession of the icon of St. George on Easter Monday 1978 in Neo Souli Serron
All the icons lined up for the procession of the icon of St. George on Easter Monday 1978 in Neo Souli Serron
The Lazarines at Lefkopigi Kozanis arrive at the village square and begin the dance (2018)
The Lazarines at Lefkopigi Kozanis arrive at the village square and begin the dance (2018)
The procession of the icon of the Virgin Mary from Ichalia Trikalon to Achladochori on Easter Tuesday 2019
The procession of the icon of the Virgin Mary from Ichalia Trikalon to Achladochori on Easter Tuesday 2019