http://culanth.org/fieldsights/464-anthropological-metaphysics-philosophical-resistance

when we interact with people with whom we are involved in some enterprise (even if we are at odds with them) it is vital to be able to understand how they go about such things, but we certainly are under no obligations to accept their own justifications/accounts of such processes as the basis for our own takes on what is happening or not. One can take such phenomena seriously without taking them literally.