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Question: Read How Many Fathers are Best and:

summarize the culture of the Bari, paying specific attention to their family units using the correct terminology (see list of key terms).

carefully reflect on and discuss the following quote (below), from both a personal ethnocentric perspective and a culturally relativistic perspective. Be sure to identify which is which.

"If biological fatherhood can be shared-an idea accepted by many indigenous groups across South America and in many other cultures across the globe-then the nuclear family with one mom and one dad might not be the established blueprint for a family that we have been led to expect. If so, the familiar story of traditional human mating behavior, in which man the hunter brings home the bacon to his faithful wife, loses credibility. And if the Barí and other groups work perfectly well with more flexible family styles, the variety of family structures that are increasingly common in Western culture these days-everything from single-parent households to blended families-may not be as dangerous to the social fabric as we are led to believe." (Small, 2003)