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Title: | Beti society in the nineteenth century |
Author: | Quinn, Frederick |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 293-304 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subject: | Beti |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159120 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1980-050-00-000020 |
Abstract: | The Beti are a Bantu-speaking people of approximately 500, 000 persons, most of whom live between the Nyong and Sanaga rivers in central Cameroon. The present article reconstructs aspects of traditional Beti society in the ninteenth century. It is based primarily on German and French archival sources available in Cameroon, German explorer's accounts, and numerous oral interviews conducted with Beti elders in 1966-1968. Successive sections describe the dominant units of traditional Beti society, the larger groupings, warfare and feuding, regulating disputes, 'dancing the bilabi' (a Beti form of potlach), and the Sso initiation rite (named for the Sso antelope, a prized kill for hunters). Note, ref., sum. in French. |