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Like the other contributions planned for the Ethnographical Atlas, all six books published to date take a detailed look at different aspects of life in Vasconia. The work as a whole is designed to study traditional culture as recorded in the 20th century and the changes affecting it in that period.
Fieldwork was carried out in Vasconia, a region of Western Europe straddling the French and Spanish Pyrenees between the river Adour to the north and the Ebro to the south. Two administrations in the area are part of the Spanish state system (the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and the neighbouring Charter Community of Navarra) and the other is part of the French Pyrénées Atlantiques ''département''. Measuring some 20,531 square kilometres, Vasconia has a population of 2,900,728 (the 1999 census for French Vasconia and the 2001 census for Spanish Vasconia).
Surveys and field work were carried out in 79 separate towns throughout the provinces of Alava, Biscay, Gipuzkoa, Iparralde (Labourd, Basse-Navarre, Soule) and Navarre. The criteria used in selecting towns included the regional diversity of the territory being researched, and of fue rural, urban and coastal areas where the survey was conducted. The ethnographical questionnaire that was used can be found in the ''Guía para una encuesta etnográfica ''(Guide for an Ethnographical Survey, Chapter II, Household Group Uses), and specifically, use is made of questions that relate to children’s games (Questions II.30 to II.45).