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Great Debates and Controversies
in Anthropology

• Biological Determinism vs. Cultural Constructionism
  
  
  • (“nature vs. nurture”)
    
    
  • (“learned vs. inherited”)
  
  
  
• Ideationism vs. Cultural Materialism
  
  
  
• Individual Agency vs. Structuralism
  
  
  • (“free will” vs. “power structures”)
  
  
  
• creation - evolution. . . .
  
  
  
• Oscar Lewis -- Robert Redfield Debate: Tepotzlán, Mexico
  
  
  • Case 10: The Folk Culture of Yucatán -- University of Chicago
    
    
    
• Margaret Mead - Derek Freeman
  
  
  
• Darkness in El Dorado Controversy (Yanomamö, Venezuela and Brazil)