Intercultural project “Plays with your heart, share your culture!”
Achieved with the help of the European Union “Culture 2000” program
(November 2005 to October 2006)
PROJECTS
The project Culture 2000
Intercultural project “Plays with your heart, share your culture!”
The different actions of the project were to achieve in the participating regions:
- A collection of the adults Traditional Games and Sports practised currently
- A collection of the videos and Web sites
- A scientific data base integrating different parameters
- A scientific analysis (with a educational goal) of these different parameters
- Video rushes of the games in activity
- A DVD (cutting) doing the synthesis of the different local videos
- Publications concerning the project in several scientific magazines
- A final Convention articulated around two themes: every morning a symposium with the results of the actions every afternoon a festival of traditional games
- A Web portal on JUGAJE.com to discover a dozen of games per region
- A book of acts of the Convention
9 Co-organisers
Director of the project: Traditional games Museum of Campo (Aragon – Spain)
INEFC – National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia – University of Lleida (Catalonia)
CPCPTC: Center for Promotion of the Popular and Traditional Catalan Culture (Catalonia)
FC BOLOS: Cantabrian federation of Skittles (Cantabria)
FALSAB: Breton traditional sports & games confederation (Brittany – France)
VVC: Vlaamse Volssportcentrale – The Flemish Folk Games Central (Flanders – Belgium)
FDFR 32: Fédération Départementale des Foyers ruraux du Gers (Midi Pyrénées – France)
FCBB: Catalan skittles federation (Catalonia)
ODIANA: Association for the development of the Baixo Guadiana (Portugal)
12 Partners
ETSGA – European Traditional Sports and Games Association (International organisation)
FILC – International federation of celtic wrestling (International organisation)
Consejo General de Colegios Officiales en Education Fisica y Ciencias de la Actividad Fisica y el Deporte de España , Madrid (Spain)
VLaS – Vlaamse Traditionele Sporten – Flamish confederation (Flanders – Belgium)
University of la Laguna, Tenerife – (Canaries Island – Spain)
University of Las Palmas, Grand Canaria – (Canaries Island – Spain)
CPEFC – Colegio de Profesores de Educación Fisica de Cataluña (Catalonia – Spain)
AWF – Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego , ethnology of sport laboratory (Poznañ – Poland)
IES FLIX, Val d’Aran centre for secondary education (Catalonia – Spain)
CTS national des quilles de huit, skittle of eight section of the FFBSQ (Aveyron – France)
Museo de Tárrega , (Catalonia – Spain)
FENT – Federaxon Esport Nohtra Tera (Val d’Aosta – Italy)
AGXPT– Galician association for traditional games and sports, investigador patrimonio lúdico gallego (Galicia – Spain)
Catholic University of Murcia – Facultad Ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte (Murcia. Spain)
CLASSIFICATION TYPOLOGY OF THE TRADITIONAL GAMES IN EUROPE
Classification typology of the traditional games in Europe
– Classification elaborated after the European seminaries of the Council of Europe: VILA REAL, Portugal (1988), and LEUVEN, Belgium (1990) by Roland Renson, Michel Manson, Erik de Vroede *. Updates and additions by Guy Jaouen, Spring 2001, and Pere Lavega Burguès, Spring 2003.
Note: This list only gives examples of games and doesn’t have the ambition to be exhaustive.
* Renson R; Manson M; De Vroede E; 1991, Typology for the classification of traditional games in Europe, in: De Vroede E; Renson R (eds), Proceedings of the Second European Seminar on Traditional Games (Leuven 1990), Leuven; Vlaamse Volkssport Centrale, pp. 69-81.
| 1 – BALL GAMES |
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CONCEPT
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GAMES |
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| 1.1 |
without instruments
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1.1.1. |
With the hands or with the upper limbs (Hand, elbow, arm) |
Hand Ball (Irlande) |
1.1.2 |
The feet or lower limbs (foot, leg, knee) |
|
1.1.3 |
Both |
Knappan (Wales) |
1.2 |
with instrument |
|
1.2.1 |
Racket |
Courte paume (F) |
1.2.2 |
Stick |
Crosse (B-Wallonie ; F) ou Bazik Kamm (Bret.) |
1.2.3 |
Chistera |
Cesta punta (Pays Basque- F; E) |
1.2.4 |
Other |
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| 2 – BOWL AND PINS GAMES |
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CONCEPT: |
GAMES |
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| 2.1 |
Bowls games |
|
2.1.1 |
Without instrument |
|
2.1.1.1 |
Marbles (nuts,…) |
Jeux de billes |
2.1.1.2 |
Round bowls |
Boules lyonnaises (F) |
2.1.1.3 |
Flat bowls |
Krubol (B- Vlaanderen) |
2.1.1.4 |
Hanging bowl |
Boule pendante (Bretagne-F) |
2.1.1.5 |
Other |
EisschieBen (A ; D) |
2.1.2 |
With instrument |
Kolven (NL) |
2.2 |
Skittle games |
|
2.2.1 |
With bowls |
Quilles du Poher (O. Bretagne-F) |
2.2.2 |
With sticks |
Karelian pins (SF) |
2.3 |
Skittle games |
|
2.3.1 |
With bowls |
Bolo Celta (Galicia, E) |
2.3.2 |
With a puck |
Palet Gascon (S.Ouest.-F) |
| 3 – THROWING GAMES |
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CONCEPT:
Throwing an object is the major characteristic |
GAMES |
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|
3.1 |
Discs and rings |
|
3.1.1 |
Discs or pucks |
Stopschieten (B-Vlaanderen) |
3.1.2 |
Rings « quoits » |
Le fer à cheval / lanzamiento herradura/ horse shoe
throwing (Irl; Ecosse) |
3.2 |
Sticks and darts |
|
3.2.1 |
Sticks |
Bricolet (B-Wallonie) |
3.2.2 |
Darts |
Darts (GB) |
3.3 |
Other instruments |
|
3.3.1 |
Hammer |
Throwing the hammer (GB) |
3.3.2 |
Sheaf |
Le lancer du ballot (F) |
3.3.3 |
Bullet |
Klootschieten (NL) |
3.3.4 |
Weight |
Jet de la pierre (CH) |
3.3.5 |
Pole |
Tossing the caber (GB) |
3.3.6 |
Others |
Barra Leonesa, Aragonesa (E) |
3.4 |
Top games |
Le sabot / Whipping top |
3.5 |
Games of throw and catch |
Osselets / tabas/Knuchelbones |
| 4 - SHOOTING GAMES |
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CONCEPT:
With a propulsive instrument |
GAMES |
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| 4.1 |
Long-bow and crossbow |
|
4.1.1 |
Long-bow |
|
4.1.1.1 |
Shooting at a vertical pole |
Staande wip |
4.1.1.2 |
Shooting at a horizontal pole |
Liggende wip (B ; F ; NL) |
4.1.1.3 |
Target shooting |
|
4.1.2 |
Crossbow |
|
4.1.2.1 |
Shooting at the vertical pole |
Staande wip (B ; F ; NL) |
4.1.2.2 |
Target shooting |
Balestra (I) |
4.1.3 |
Catapult |
|
4.2 |
Fire-arms |
|
4.2.1 |
Shooting at a vertical pole |
Buksschieten (B ; NL) |
4.2.2 |
Target shooting |
|
4.3 |
Blowpipe |
Jeu de la Sarbacane (F) |
4.4 |
Sling |
Tiro de honda (Islas Baleares-E) |
4.5 |
Others |
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| 5 – FIGHTING AND JOUSTING GAMES |
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CONCEPT:
Confrontation between human being, with or without instruments |
GAMES |
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| 5.1 |
without instruments |
|
5.1.1 |
Wrestling without instruments |
Cornish Wrestling (GB) |
5.1.2 |
Wrestling with instruments |
Bazh-yod (F) |
5.2 |
Confrontation with instruments |
|
5.2.1 |
Sticks, lances |
Joute à la lance (B) |
5.2.2 |
others |
Joute sur la poutre |
5.3 |
Confrontation against objets |
|
5.3.1 |
Jousts against the resistance of objects |
Corte de troncos horizontales y verticales (E) |
5.3.2 |
Jousting for dexterity |
Jeu de bagues (B ; F ; NL) |
| 6 – ANIMAL GAMES |
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CONCEPT
: Jeux avec des animaux |
GAMES |
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| 6.1 |
The animal is the playing object (crual
games) |
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6.2 |
Confrontation man versus animal |
Courses de taureaux (F) |
6.3 |
Competition between animals |
|
6.3.1 |
Combats |
Combats de coqs / peleas de gallos/ |
6.3.2 |
Racing |
La colombophilie / duivensport /colombofilia/ pigeon racing |
6.3.3 |
Warbling |
Vinkenzetten / pînsonnerie (B ; F) |
| 7 – LOCOMOTION GAMES |
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CONCEPT:
To move oneself or to move an object |
GAMES |
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| 7.1 |
Moving oneself |
|
7.1.1 |
without instruments |
|
7.1.1.1 |
Running and chassing |
Jeu de barre (F) |
7.1.1.2 |
Swimming |
|
7.1.1.3 |
Jumping and skipping |
La marelle / Rayuela/Hopscotch |
7.1.1.4 |
Climbing |
Mastklimmen |
7.1.1.5 |
Balance |
Boegsprietlopen (B) |
7.1.2 |
with instruments |
Bicyclette |
7.2 |
Being moved |
|
7.2.1 |
Animals |
Course d’ânes /Carrera Burros/ |
7.2.2 |
Vehicle / engine |
Char à voile / Sand yachting |
7.3 |
Moving an object |
|
7.3.1 |
By lifting |
Putting the stone (UK) |
7.3.2 |
To pull |
Traîner de pierre (E) Arrastre de piedras (E) |
| 8 – ACROBATICS |
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CONCEPT:
Performances requiring skillful control of the body |
GAMES |
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| 8.1 |
Use of the body |
Castells (Cataluña, E) |
