Los años difícilesEl resurgimiento del Anuario de Eusko Folklore en la Sociedad de Ciencias de Aranzadi (1955-1984)

Resumen

This article gathers the history of the journal Anuario de Eusko Folklore from its reappearance within the Society of Sciences Sciences Aranzadi in 1955, to 1991 when its publication was undertaken by the Barandiaran foundation. Through the testimony of Fermin Leizaola, secretary of the journal between 1965 and 1984, and the analysis of archive documents a complex scenario comes to light, highly conditioned by the war and Franco’s regime in which appear the collaboration as well as dissensions between the scientific societies of the Basque Country, as well as the secularization of knowledge that has marked their subsequent trajectory. Leizaola’s testimony allows us to identify, through interesting and to some extent unknown clues, both past difficulties and challenges for the future that help to better understand the place occupied by scientific societies in the arena of the production of knowledge in the South Basque Country.