About this course

• Basic Folklore Concepts: culture, people, folk, customs and traditions, the historicity of folklore phenomena
• Customs in the cycle of time
• The formation of Pontic identity in Greece
• Artistic Folk Speech: folk tales – Pontic fairy tales, myths, traditions, legends, and folk songs of Pontus
• Folklore and field research
• Life narratives: biographical approach and oral history
• Folklore elements in Pontic literary works
• Urban Folklore