Uneven Terrain: Society and Foodways in Rarh Bengal

This book presents an ethnography of foodways of Rarh, an ecocultural zone in West Bengal, India. Through the lens of food ethnography, it examines the dynamics of social, political, and economic relations in rural areas of West Bengal.

It also assesses the influence of global forces on resource bases, the plurality of cultural expressions, and the identity of the people in the region.

The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of anthropology, sociology, history, geography, ethnography, food studies, and South Asian studies.

Kanchan Mukhopadhyay is an independent anthropologist. He worked at the Indian Museum briefly before joining the Anthropological Survey in India, where he worked for over three decades. He was guest teacher at University of Calcutta, and Tagore National Fellow for Cultural Research, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He has worked on identity issues among migrants, effect of exogenous change factors on small-scale communities, methodological and ethical issues in social science research, border area studies, anthropology of food, and visual anthropology.