Overview

Bringing together empirical research from across India, this volume examines how food intersects with identity, migration, livelihood and media. It offers interdisciplinary insights into the cultural, political and social dimensions of food in contemporary Indian life.

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""This is a volume that promises to go beyond the reductive archetypes of Indian food and succeeds in doing that with aplomb. It digs deep into disgust, digitization, littoral subaltern tastes, syntax and semiotics and Nipponization of NE Indian foods that is rarely brought together in one volume."" - Krishnendu Ray, New York University

“This is a volume that promises to go beyond the reductive archetypes of Indian food and succeeds in doing that with aplomb. It digs deep into disgust, digitization, littoral subaltern tastes, syntax and semiotics and Nipponization of NE Indian foods that is rarely brought together in one volume.” • Krishnendu Ray, New York University

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Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. She has been a recipient of the Krishna Raj Fellowship, the Zubaan-Sassakawa Peace Foundation Grant for Young Researchers from the Northeast, the Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati Start-Up Grant and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Grant.

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