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School children. Zeanuri (Bizkaia), 1913. Felipe Manterola Collection. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

Etniker Euskalerria Groups and Labayru Fundazioa together published in 1993 an extensive volume dedicated to children’s games in the Basque Country, featuring approximately a thousand pastimes. The work had a great reception, particularly among teachers and sportspeople, which led to a second edition in 2005. Besides, and due to the vast amount of information and data provided about the playful world of children, it served as a basis for subsequent studies, including a doctoral thesis presented at Paris-Sorbonne University, and furnished arguments for several television documentary scripts. (more…)