Ethnographic Atlas of the Basque Country
De Atlas Etnográfico de Vasconia
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House and Family in the Basque Country
House and Family in the Basque Country
Different types of rites, such as attaching the St. John’s branch, San Juan haretxa, to the doorposts, were performed around the St. John’s Day festivities.
Family Diet in the Basque Country
Family Diet in the Basque Country
Ogi erre berri, etxe galgarri. Soft bread at home, an unruly household.
Children’s Games in the Basque Country
Children’s Games in the Basque Country
Humans play games throughout their lives; however, that activity has a clearly different role for children and adults.
Traditional Medicine in the Basque Country
Traditional Medicine in the Basque Country
Osasun ona eukiteko, oiloekin ohera eta txoriekin jaiki. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Rites from Birth to Marriage in the Basque Country
Rites from Birth to Marriage in the Basque Country
As was the case of all important events, the wedding banquet, eztei-bazkaria, was celebrated at home.
Funeral Rites in the Basque Country
Funeral Rites in the Basque Country
Jaiotzetik heriotza zor. When you begin to live, you being to die.
Livestock Farming and Shepherding in the Basque Country
Livestock Farming and Shepherding in the Basque Country
The permanence of shepherding in the mountains of the Basque Country over centuries may help understand the fact that denominations given to diverse species of livestock, as well as to the implements used, form a distinguishing lexical corpus, independent from Indoeuropean languages.
Agriculture in the Basque Country
Agriculture in the Basque Country
Spades, ploughs, rakes, sickles, scythes and threshers were the essential tools for agricultural work.
