Explore American foodways related to the Thanksgiving holiday, and compare and contrast them to the foodways of one named society of your choosing among foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists.
• To remind you, foodways are described on page 97 of Chapter 5 in the textbook.
• What “must” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? What is typical in an American family’s meal?
What “can’t” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? How much of the Thanksgiving meal is
produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal, either in your family or in a typical American family?
What is the gender division of labor of a typical American family’s Thanksgiving meal? How does that compare
with the gender division of labor of your family’s Thanksgiving meal?
• Compare and Contrast these observations regarding an American Thanksgiving meal with observations of foodways of a foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society of your choosing. The society you choose must be a specific named society of only foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists, preferably named in the Week 3 textbook reading (Shearn, 2020).
What does a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or
pastoralist society look like? What does a celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or
pastoralist society look like? How much of the typical or celebratory meal of your chosen foraging,
horticulturalist, or pastoralist society is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal? What is the
gender division of labor of a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society?
• Create a 1-to-3-page, double-spaced paper describing the foodways