Well, in this debate between Malinowski and Fortune, I have no idea who is right.
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>CB: Nobody here has said there is a universal model of fatherhood,
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But I didn't present my comment as criticism of the argument of a strawman or anyone else.
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>CB: Leach wrote a famous ethnography on Burma.
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>Anyway, it isn't ignorance of the biological role of the father, but
>inability to determine which particular man was the father that is
>the hypothesis.
And that's the point; there may be ignorance of the biological role of "the father". More importantly, there may not be any particular man who is the father. our concept "father" may not be universal.
Yours, Rakesh