The Folklore Museum and Archives
of the National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens: Their Academic and Public Character
VASSILIKI CHRYSSANTHOPOULOU
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Folklore Museum and Archives of the University of Athens:
Continuity and Change in Folklore Theory and Methodology
VASSILIKI CHRYSSANTHOPOULOU
Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Summary: This paper deals with collections by students of ethnographic material in
the Folklore Museum and Archives (henceforth FMA) of the University of Athens. It
looks at the topics researched and the methods employed in recording and interpreting
their data by students during the fifty or more years of the existence of this archival
collection. Special emphasis is given to the issues of continuity and change concerning
the methodologies of research and archiving employed over this period, as they express
continuities and transformations both in Greek society and culture, and in the development
of folklore in Greece. Moreover, I attempt to investigate the ways in which
the FMA function nowadays as a place, a lieu, where students are introduced to the
concept of cultural heritage, in its tangible and intangible dimensions, and trained in its
study and management. I approach the subject of this paper both as a researcher and
instructor in folklore in the Department of Philology, but also as somebody who had a
personal connection with the FMA as a student.

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