Contrasting Durkheimian and Marxist perspectives

thanksgiving is an old american tradition that most american family’s (including mine) participate in every November. every thanksgiving we have turkey as the main course for our feast and it never changes in our family or most other american family’s who celebrate the holiday. i feel like you cant enjoy a thanksgiving dinner with the family without the turkey. through our perspective we dont really think about all of the resources and labor it takes to make our traditional meal. through Marxist perspectives, it explains that the effort to how turkeys are raised and how they are prepared for consumption is kept secret as a way of exploiting the consumer. through Durkheim perspective, he explains how food brings us together as a whole through tradition and culture. what defines the foods we have in our culture is the region that we are in and the history of the people in that region. For example spiders are enjoyed by people in Cambodia because during the pol pot regime there was widespread famine so the locals resorted to eating tarantulas to survive. overtime the people of Cambodia developed a taste for them so now its become apart of their culture.