Adaptations of culturally and nutritionally important traditional foods in Eastern Himalaya: A case study with Adi women of Arunachal Pradesh

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 623-633

  Singh, Anamika ^a   Singh, Ranjay K ^b,c   Bhardwaj, Rakesh ^b   Singh, A K ^d  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c CENTRAL SOIL SALINITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Adi women; Cultural capital; Ethnomedicines; Indigenous biodiversity; Traditional foods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869069165     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Turner N J, Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teaching for Sustainable Living, (Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, Quebec Street Suite, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 2005.
2. Singh RK & Sureja AK, Community knowledge and sustainable natural resources management: learning from the Monpa of Arunachal Pradesh, TD: The J Transd Res in Southern Africa, 2(1) (2006) 73-102.
3. Singh A, Singh RK & Sureja AK, Cultural significance and diversities of ethnic foods of Northeast India, Indian J Tradit Knowle, 6 (1)
4. Singh RK, Conserving diversity and culture: Pem Dolma, Honey Bee, 15 (3) (2004)12-13.
5. Turner NJ & Turner SE, Food, forage and medicinal resources of forests, Encyclopedia of Life Sup Syst, (EOLSS Publishers), 2004, 1-41.
6. Godoy R, Reyes-Garcia V, Byron E, Leonard WR & Vadez V, The effects of market economies on the well-being of indigenous peoples and on their use of renewable natural resources, Annual Rev Anthropo, 34 (2005) 121-138.
7. Turner NJ, Parrish CC & Solberg SM, In: Parrish CC, Turner NJ & Solberg SM (eds), Resetting the Kitchen Table: Food Security Culture, Health and Resilience in Coastal Communities, 2009, 1-12.
8. Shaw H, Identifying and overcoming barriers to healthy faced by ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom, In: Lindgreen A & Hingley MK (eds), The New Cultures of Food: Marketing Opportunities from Ethnic Religious and Cultural Diversity, 2009, 4-21.
9. Singh A, Mishra S & Singh RK, Dynamics of traditional food and knowledge networking systems among tribal women of Arunachal Pradesh: Source of learning and communication. Paper presented in National Conference on Role of Traditional Media in Rural Development, held at Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, UP, India from 9-10 December, 2006.
10. Singh RK & Adi Women, Biocultural Knowledge Systems of Tribes of Eastern Himalayas. NISACIR, CSIR, New Delhi, 2010.
11. Singh RK, Singh A & Sureja AK, Traditional foods of Monpa tribe of west Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh, Indian J Tradit Knowle, 6 (1) (2007b) 25-36.
12. Mishra A, Singh RK & Singh A, Dynamics of Adi women's traditional foods and livelihoods in varying soci9oecological systems of Arunachal Pradesh: A source of learning and inspiration, In: Lindgreen A & Hingley MK (eds), The New Cultures of Food: Marketing Opportunities from Ethnic Religious and Cultural Diversity, 2009: 201-203.
13. ndOctober, 2005.
14. ndAnnual Conference, Food: Crops and Non-crops, held at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana from April 1-4, 2009.
15. Sarah L, Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: Equitable Partnership in Practice, (Earthscan publication, London, UK), 2002.
16. Gupta AK, Culinary creativity: Blending wild and domesticated biodiversity by women, Honey Bee, 10 (1999) 3.
17. Gupta AK, Can women only cope and not create: Why are there so few women innovators? Honey Bee, 12 (4) (2001) 1.
18. Gupta AK, Competition for pooling 'Best innovative technological, traditional and innovative practices of women, Honey Bee, 17(1 & 2) (2006) 16.
19. Singh RK, Pretty JN & Sarah P, Traditional knowledge and biocultural diversity: learning from tribal communities for sustainable development in northeast India, J Environ Plan Manag, 53(4) (2010) 511-533.
20. Singh RK, Bhowmik SN & Pandey CB, Biocultural diversity, climate change and livelihood security of the Adi community: Grassroots conservators of eastern Himalaya Arunachal Pradesh, Indian J Tradit knowle, 10(1) (2011)39-56.
21. Milburn MP, Indigenous nutrition using traditional food knowledge to solve contemporary health problems, American Indian Quarterly, 2004, 28 (3&4) (2004) 411-434.