Abstract
Praise performances among the Tuareg people of Niger, West Africa, inform issues in performance and ritual in folklore and anthropology : specifically, interrelationships among aesthetics, play, and power. In this essay, I focus upon a specific smith dance called tebategh. This dance is accompanied by drumming, sung lyrics, and comic repartee - this latter are collectively called tedaban and are presented before large mixed-sex and mixed-class audiences at weddings . It is presented before a large, mixed-class audience of men and women guests at noble weddings. I analyze how performers and audience experience alternating serious and non-serious frames, and how, in a three-way interaction between smiths, audience, and researcher, social identities are manufactured and negotiated. In this process, frames of ritual, theater, art, and play interact.
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