Rats: if you can’t beat them eat them! (Tricks of the trade observed among the Adi and other North-East Indian tribals)

• Main Authors: Meyer-Rochow, Victor, Megu, Karsing, Chakravorty, Jharna
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2015
• Subjects: Adi and Apatani; Arunachal Pradesh; Food; Rat meat; Pest control; Minilivestock; Diet; Taboos; Hodgson; Indian; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/11/1/45

Abstract Background Since outside the tribal areas of North-East India it is not widely known, neither in the world nor in India itself, that rats are considered a delicious food item, this was one of several reasons why we decided to present this ethnographic account of rat procurement and preparat...