Significance of Bamboo among the Tai Ahoms in Rural Situations of Assam
Periodic Research ( P: ISSN No. 2231-0045 RNI No. UPBIL/2012/55438 VOL. -6, ISSUE-2, November - 2017 E: ISSN No. 2349-9435 ) Abstract Tara Nath Dowarah Museum Curator, Deptt.of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam. Arifur Zaman Assistant Professor, Deptt.of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh, Assam Bamboo is one of the integral objects of human culture. It has a pristine heritage of its own and is invariably use as an important ingredient for construction of houses, different household implements like bed, mat, spread, storing basket, drinking/storing bamboo tubes, decorative items, etc. Varieties of delicious food items are prepared from bamboo offshoots. The people of Assam have established a near obsession with the use of bamboo for the major construction of all domestic implements / accessories and thus their habitual norms are customarily very much linked with the bamboo. Bamboo has got an integral relation with the beli...