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November 23, 2024 77 mins

The Two Humas celebrate a good ol’ traditional Thanksgiving with platefuls of platitudes and mouthfuls of myths.

Episode 67: Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving, OR, Gratitude Is More Than a Platitude

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

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Asia Society

2024   Chuseok: Korean Thanksgiving Day. Asia Society (website), accessed November 19, 2024, asiasociety.org/korea/chuseok-korean-thanksgiving-day.

 

Baker, James W.

2009   Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday. University of New Hampshire Press, Hanover, NH.

 

Barbados.org

2024   Barbados Crop Over Festival. Barbados.org (website), accessed November 19, 2024, barbados.org/cropover.htm.

 

BBC News

2023   Harvest Festival 2023: What Is It? And Are You Doing Anything to Celebrate It? BBC News Newsround(website), October 9, 2023, www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ 58813475.amp.      

 

Braga, Brunno

2021   Did You Know? Liberia Celebrates Thanksgiving Day Like This? Travel Noire, November 23, 2021, travelnoire.com/liberia-thanksgiving-day.

 

Collins Dictionary

2024   Platitudes. Collins Dictionary (website), www.collinsdictionary.com/ dictionary/english-word/platitude.

 

Cheney, Glenn Alan

2013   Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims’ First Year in America. New London Librarium, Hanover, CT.

 

Dictionary.com

2024   Platitude. Dictionary.com (website), www.dictionary.com/browse/platitude.

 

Ebohon, Esohe

2024   Why You Must Visit Barbados During Crop Over Celebrations (You Might Even Spot Rihanna in the Parade). Glamour, November 16, 2024, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/barbados-crop-over-guide.

 

Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

2024   John McCrae. Britannica, www.britannica.com/biography/John-McCrae.

 

Elliott, Eloise

2024   Thanksgiving around the World. Time and Date (website), November 14, 2024, www.timeanddate.com/news/calendar/global-thanksgiving.

 

Ewbank, Anne

2018   Why One Australian Island Celebrates Thanksgiving. Atlas Obscura, November 21, 2018, www.atlasobscura.com/articles/norfolk-island-thanksgiving.

 

Fable, Noah

2024   The Legacy of Thanksgiving. Noah Fable, Coppell, TX.

 

Government of Canada

2024   10 Quick Facts on…Remembrance Day. Government of Canada (website), accessed on November 20, 2024, www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/ information-for/educators/quick-facts/remembrance-day.

 

Hallett, Vicky

2021   Former Slaves Brought Thanksgiving to Liberia—and Rebooted It. NPR, November 24, 2021www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/24/ 1057267834/former-slaves-brought-thanksgiving-to-liberia-and-rebooted-it.

 

Harvard Medical School

2021   Giving Thanks Can Make You Happier. Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School (website), August 14, 2021, www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/ giving-thanks-can-make-you-happier.

 

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