The striking development is not that the veracity of some is open to doubt, but that this forgivingly collusive arrangement has now broken down: not the fact of lying, but the naming of it.
A little voice - call it your conscience,your inner self, or your internal mother - inlaw-will aways tell you the truth if you are prepared to hear it.
The reports of anthropologist's fieldwork also indicate that the facts of nonliterate society defiladed and distorted by literate society need a new cognition.