Acting for Others : HAU Books : 9780997367584 : 099736758X : 01 May 2018 : For the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers simply by growing up and reproducing. What fathers&;and by extension, men&;actually are is a result of a series of relational transformations, operated in and by rituals in which men and women both perform complementary actions in separate spaces. Acting for Others is a tour de force in Melanesian ethnography, gender studies, and theories of ritual. Based on years of fieldwork conducted by the author and her husband and co-ethnographer, this book&;s &;double view&; of the Ankave ritual cycle&;from women in the village and from the men in the forest&;is novel, provocative, and one of the most incisive analyses of the emergence of ideas of gender in Papua New Guinea since Marilyn Strathern&;s The Gender of the Gift. At the heart of Pascale Bonnemère&;s argument is the idea that it is possible for genders to act for and