Culture is the identity or felling of belonging to a group. Without culture a race will not be able to prolong their own identity for a longer period of time. A race can establish their existence in a global stage through its versatile culture only.
Food is an important cultural feature of a community besides being the most essential item for survival of human beings. The present study look forward to explore the relations between food and the community, the way food is socially and culturally constructed in the Sarania Kacharies society. The preparations and practices of food habit helps to understand the social relations and focus the cultural identity. This area of work includes issues like changing food practices, food and culture relations etc. In every community or in every culture, food ways have important roles to play signifying various beliefs and practices . Food is not only a collection of products that can be used for statistical or nutritional studies. It is also, and at the same time, a system of communication, a body of images, a protocol of usages, situations, and behaviors‖ (Barthes, 1975, pp. 49-50). The historical evidence also reveals that the effective communication of human being is organized only through the food ways of every cultural system. “The cuisine of a people and their understanding of the world are linked‖ (Soler 1973, pp. 943).” Lévi- Strauss states, “natural species are chosen [as totems‖]” not because they are ‘good to eat’ but because they are good to think‘‖ (1963, pp. 89). Food as a metaphoric term conveys different meanings and also mediates between nature and culture. The relation between nature and culture is universal in human society.
Key words: 1. Assam, 2.Food-Culture, 3.Plan Tribe, 4.Recipe, 5.Sarania Kachari
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