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Audio Recording Interview with Fotis Litsas and Mrs. Demetra Aneste concerning personal experiences, local legends, traditional narratives, beliefs, practices, and memorial services, Chicago, Illinois

Interview with Fotis Litsas and Mrs. Demetra Aneste concerning personal experiences, local legends, traditional narratives, beliefs, practices, and memorial services, Chicago, Illinois

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Fotis Litsas and Mrs. Demetra Aneste concerning personal experiences, local legends, traditional narratives, beliefs, practices, and memorial services, Chicago, Illinois

Names

  • Bartis, Peter, 1949- (Collector)
  • Litsas, Fotis (Interviewee)
  • Aneste, Demetra (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, April 21, 1977

Headings

  • -  Greek Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Mr. Fotis Litsas & Mrs. Demetra Aneste, part 1
  • -  Interview with Fotis Litsas and Mrs. Demetra (Della) Aneste at the Aneste home, 5849 North Bernard St.; discussion covers local legends, traditional narratives, beliefs and practices, including memorial services; discussion of Memorial Day Services at cemetery, special services for children, dress in white, white candy Jordan almonds added to wheat (may be reference to sitari), about photographs on gravestones; discussion of “death photo" of deceased laid out for family; about the burial of priests; stories by Fotis Litsas about chanter, about deacon who misreads, about the old person who requested that the chant be done in the Corinthian way; Mrs. Aneste discusses her father in response to story told by fieldworker, also discusses why Greeks came to the U.S., to make money and earn a dowry for sister or daughter; discussion of dowry, reason and context; Mrs. Aneste offers favorable opinion and reasons concerning "matched marriage"; about training for girls in household crafts in public school; story by Mrs. Aneste of a woman known to her who waited for her matched husband for 17 years only to find he had grown old.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20529a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0606
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T006-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Bartis, Peter, Fotis Litsas, and Demetra Aneste. Interview with Fotis Litsas and Mrs. Demetra Aneste concerning personal experiences, local legends, traditional narratives, beliefs, practices, and memorial services, Chicago, Illinois. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20529a/.

APA citation style:

Bartis, P., Litsas, F. & Aneste, D. (1977) Interview with Fotis Litsas and Mrs. Demetra Aneste concerning personal experiences, local legends, traditional narratives, beliefs, practices, and memorial services, Chicago, Illinois. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20529a/.

MLA citation style:

Bartis, Peter, Fotis Litsas, and Demetra Aneste. Interview with Fotis Litsas and Mrs. Demetra Aneste concerning personal experiences, local legends, traditional narratives, beliefs, practices, and memorial services, Chicago, Illinois. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20529a/>.