during their lives. Only at death are there transactions of objects that represent a detachable part of the person. It is only then that a person is no longer able to act for himself or herself or for close kin. At this point, a man or woman becomes what is known as a ‘dividual’ and their relational parts can be substituted for objects. Bonnemère’s productive critique of a key tenet in The Gender of the Gift highlights both the continuing significance of this landmark text and its limitations. Bonnemère’s study is not only an ethnographically rich and theoretically astute examination of initiation in Melanesia. Her analysis also has relevance beyond this region, highlighting the importance of investigating the intrinsic relations between male and female in any form of social process. Becoming a man or woman may be the outcome of acting for others, where relations are transformed and persons assume the statuses deemed appropriate for their particular time and place.

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迷失的兰博斯

在他们的生活中。只有在死亡时才会有代表人的可分离部分的物品的交易。只有到那时，一个人才能不再为自己或近亲行事。在这一点上，一个男人或女人变成了所谓的“个体”，他们的关系部分可以替换为对象。Bonnemère 对《礼物的性别》中一个关键原则的富有成效的批评突出了这一具有里程碑意义的文本的持续重要性及其局限性。Bonnemère 的研究不仅是对美拉尼西亚启蒙运动的丰富的人种学研究和理论精明的研究。她的分析也具有该地区以外的相关性，突出了在任何形式的社会过程中调查男性和女性之间内在关系的重要性。成为男人或女人可能是为他人表演的结果，