L’auca de jocs d’Ascó was published last April, a new publication on the games and toys of the cultural association Lo Llaüt, member of the AEJeST since 2011.

The book, written by Biel Pubill, professor of history and physical education at the Flix Institute, reviews the leisure activities that appear in the famous auca –image poster- Jochs d’infantesa -Games of children- (1674) of folklorist Joan Amades, collected and published in 1947 under the name Jocs de la mainada – Children’s games – reinterpreting many of the games that appear there and contextualising them in the streets, squares and natural environments of Ascó (Catalonia).

Author of the article: Guy Jaouen

The author is Ruadhan MacFadden, an Irish independent researcher in cultural anthropology who has practiced many martial arts. This 216-page English-language book explores the history of the Collar and Elbow style, its popularity in the 19th century, its strategies and techniques, how it was deeply integrated into rural communities in Ireland (see table of contents).

At the end of 2020, the “Asociación Cultural La Tanguilla” (Spain) published two books on two festival of traditional sports and games.

The 1st book is a collection of communications given at the time of the World Congress of Peñaranda de Duero, Spain, in 2009, in parallel with the Congress of AEJeST and the founding meeting of the ITSGA. The speakers were from Spain, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, Taiwan and Brazil.

Le jeu traditionnel aujourd’hui / El juego tradicional hoy is the collective book that collects the contributions presented at the Congress “Traditional games today: vigilance, projection and social utility”.

The work, directed by Carlos Suari and co-edited by the Asociación del Bolo Vaqueiro and the Sociedá Etnomotora Asturiana, is divided into four main parts (approximation, teaching, institutionalization and heritage) and ends with a memory of the activities held at the aforementioned congress, held in Cangas del Narcea (Asturias) in March 2019.