Summary

The aim of both this first volume and of the following ones which will integrate the Atlas, is to study the human group of the Basque Country. Family diet is the first contribution to the Atlas to which many others will follow, which will include the house with its furniture and furnishings, clothing, the family members and their legal relationship, rites of passage, relationships within the family and between neighbours, popular medicine, religiousness, the popular calendar and the different ways of life.