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Changing Eating Pattern of Mising Food Culture


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Assam the part of North East India is unique as it has own culture and tradition. The food habits of Assam reflect that there is a deep impact of South Asian food culture on the food habits of Assam. Mising community is one of the major tribe of Assam who was originally hill tribe and later migrated to plain areas of Assam. The culture of Mising community is very traditional and their culture is nature based within a specific situations and the functionalist approach is applicable to focus it. The cultural history of Mising community it is very clear how they are shifting from rural to urban areas of other places. Still they are consuming their own traditional foods as well as the modern also. The impact of economic globalization is very clearly visible in Mising society also. The paper is based on a very speculative survey to explore the rapid changes going on Mising culture of Assam.

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Food, Culture, Changes, Tradition
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Authors

Pratisha Kumari
Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India
S.K. Dutta
Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India

Abstract


Assam the part of North East India is unique as it has own culture and tradition. The food habits of Assam reflect that there is a deep impact of South Asian food culture on the food habits of Assam. Mising community is one of the major tribe of Assam who was originally hill tribe and later migrated to plain areas of Assam. The culture of Mising community is very traditional and their culture is nature based within a specific situations and the functionalist approach is applicable to focus it. The cultural history of Mising community it is very clear how they are shifting from rural to urban areas of other places. Still they are consuming their own traditional foods as well as the modern also. The impact of economic globalization is very clearly visible in Mising society also. The paper is based on a very speculative survey to explore the rapid changes going on Mising culture of Assam.

Keywords


Food, Culture, Changes, Tradition

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