Great Debates in Anthropology:

• creation -- evolution
  
  
• Lewis -- Redfield Debate
  • Tepotzlán, Mexico
    
    
• Case 10: The Folk Culture of Yucatán -- University of Chicago
  
  
  

• Mead -- Freeman Controversy
  
  
• Biological Determinism vs. Cultural Constructionism
  ( “nature vs. nurture”)
  ( “learned vs. inherited”)
  slides (.pdf) (.pptx)
  
• Ideationism vs. Cultural Materialism
  slides (.pdf) (.pptx)
  
  
• Individual Agency vs. Structuralism
  (“free will” vs. “power structures”)
  slides (.pdf) (.pptx)
  
• Darkness in El Dorado Controversy
  (Yanomamó)