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''Agriculture in the Basque Country ''is the outcome of the ethnographical research conducted by the Etniker Euskalerria Groups led by Ander Manterola. This volume is the eighth contribution to the ''Ethnographic Atlas ''designed and launched by José Miguel de Barandiaran. Previous publications include ''Food at Home ''(1990), ''Children’s Games ''(1993), ''Funeral Rites ''(1995), ''Rites: From Birth to Marriage ''(1998), ''Livestock and Grazing ''(2000), ''Popular Medicine ''(2004) and ''Home and Family ''(2011).
The Ethnographic Atlas studies the different aspects of people of the Basque Country from the viewpoint of traditional culture as recorded throughout the 20th and 21st century, and likewise gauges the changes that have occurred. Fieldwork was conducted in the Basque Country, in Wes- tern Western Europe, which occupies an area stretching from the River Adour to the north to the River Ebro to the south. The territory comes under two political authorities in Spain (the Basque and Navarra Autonomous Communities) and part is in the French Department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. The surface area of the territory totals 20,531 km<sup>2</sup> and its population stands at 3,199,042 inhabitants (2016 census).
The fieldwork was conducted in 56 different towns and villages in Álava (14), Bizkaia (13), Gipuzkoa (7), Navarra (16) and that part of the Basque Country in France (6). The regional diversity of the target territory was taken into account when selected the surveyed locations. The ethnographic questionnaire used appears in the ''Guide for an Ethnographic Survey'', published by Barandiaran in 1974 and covers the data gathered in response to Questions 1 to 24 of Section 5 on agriculture. The work was collated and drafted by the Ethnography Department at Labayru Fundazioa. The content is based on the data gathered during fieldwork on agriculture, which goes hand in hand with earlier volumes on livestock farming and shepherding, and on the homestead and family, as the three provide an overall view of the livestock-farming way of life.
