Indigenous Food Habit System of Padam Tribes with special reference to East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh

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Mr.Tabiram Yirang , Mr.Tabiram Yirang

Abstract: This paper is an attempt to highlight the indigenous food habit system of the Padam tribes of East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. Like any other tribal communities in the world, the Padams, which is one of the sub-tribes of Adi tribes, have a unique socio-cultural life which is always found to be inter-oven with the nature. They have their own traditional methods of preparations and consumption of food items in the society. The places of habitation, topography, climatic conditions, flora and fauna, nature of the land etc greatly influence the food habit patterns of the Padams. They have their own life styles of living, socio-cultural and socio-economic pattern, religions, and faiths and believe etc. Agriculture has been the main source of every food items and drinks in the society. Boiling, roasting, smoking and porridge or pastes are the important traditional methods of preparations and consumption of foods in the society. Whatever may be the kind of foods is not taken in a raw form except some green vegetables, nuts and roots. Rice is the staple food of the Padams living in the region. It is widely cultivated over the hills, valleys and plain areas. Other important food items are Maize, Millet, tapioca, sweet potato, green vegetables, wild roots, nuts, bamboo shoots, herbs and meats of different animals and fishes etc. Rice, maize, millets and tapioca are useful for preparation of local indigenous drinks. The indigenous communities living for thousands of years overlapping with biodiversity have highly complex and very specific knowledge system of management of local resources and their sustainable. Their traditional knowledge of the biological materials is very vast and age old tradition in nature. They have been living in this area overlapping with high diversity of species of flora and fauna in the environment since its antiquity. This high diversity of bio-resources is attributed to their indigenous management system of bio-resources. Their wisdom and indigenous knowledge (IK) has played an important role in the process of its biodiversity conservation in the region. They practice certain traditional system for protecting the diversity of flora and fauna in the region. Key words: Traditional methods, food habits, local resources, biodiversity, bio-resources, indigenous knowledge system(IK)etc.

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Mr.Tabiram Yirang & Mr.Tabiram Yirang (March-2023). Indigenous Food Habit System of Padam Tribes with special reference to East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(3), b826-b837. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2303192.pdf

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Research Area: Social Science and Humanities 

Country: Pasighat, East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh (India), India

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