Fortune's analysis was significantly challenged by Susanne Kuehling in her 2005 title Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea.
福群的分析受到蘇珊·屈林（Susanne Kuehling）於2005年提出，標題為《Dobu: Ethics of Exchange on a Massim Island, Papua New Guinea》的論文的挑戰。