ABSTRACT
Annamangai motifs deal with the representation of nature-centred cultural representations of women and food in folktales from India. Food and other forms of culture in the rural household reiterate the spirit of sisterhood. The different nature-centred rituals and practices emerge as multifarious threads that bind women's nature-culture into an organic whole. Food is always associated with one's faith and value systems. A Life of Contentment is a simple fable narrated by Saroja from Virudhapatti, which reiterates the age-old belief, East or west, home is the best'. The daughter-in-law is made to do all the household chores, such as clearing the cowshed and carrying water from the well. Sisterhood includes the idea and experience of female bonding, and the self-affirmation and identity discovered in a woman-centred vision and definition of womanhood'. The womannature relationship in the form of sisterhood reiterates Woody-Woman sensitivity and proximity.
