This article analyzes the naming ceremony of a young girl in a village in southeastern Senegal to show how kola nuts distributed during the course of such rituals provide material channels through which individuals managed inclusion across participation frameworks. Even for those not in attendance, distributed kola co‐constituted states of participation and witnessing, in which recipients could subsequently report about such events as ratified authorities. After being excluded from this naming ceremony, a woman performed a teasing nickname of the child to be named, which was subsequently voiced throughout the community as a form of dissent. Such routines of teasing offer forms of value transformation in which individuals could redirect and recontextualize material objects, and in so doing, articulate claims to community inclusion and participation. Lifetime events offer contexts in which increasingly dispersed social networks evaluate participation and community membership. Although teasing has often been offered in general terms as a form of resistance, an interdiscursive, material analysis has the capacity to show how it serves as a form of social power and value transformation.

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仪式偶然性：戏弄与参与政治

本文分析了塞内加尔东南部一个村庄的一个年轻女孩的命名仪式，以显示在此类仪式过程中散布的可乐果如何提供物质渠道，使个人可以跨参与框架管理包容性。即使对于那些没有参加的人，分布式可乐也构成了参与和见证的状态，接受者随后可以在其中报告已批准的当局等事件。在被排除在命名仪式之外之后，一名妇女对要命名的孩子取了一个戏弄的昵称，随后在整个社区中被表达为异议的形式。这种戏弄性的惯例提供了价值转换的形式，在这种形式中，个人可以重定向和重新界定物质对象，并以此明确表达对社区包容和参与的主张。终生事件提供了越来越分散的社交网络评估参与和社区成员身份的环境。尽管戏easing通常以反抗的形式提供，但跨学科的材料分析能够显示出它如何作为一种社会力量和价值转换的形式。