#beti

[averycleverpuniwillthinkoflater]

I love how Nobby's time as Beti is handled in Jingo

Honestly I really like how Terry parodied the classic trope of "man has to dress up as a woman leading to hilarious antics" with Nobby in Jingo.

It starts off pretty par for the course with Nobby dressing up as a dancing girl and people being terrified he might actually live up to the name but of course Terry doesn't just leave it there.

I really like how Nobby is so quickly accepted by the women of Klatch and how after he realises they are treating him kindly (something that almost never happens to him) he really starts seeing them as people and starts to identify with their struggles. Him seeing things from their perpective and finding a sense of community with them is not something I expected.

'Excuse me, are you the lady who is with the clowns?'

Corporal Nobbs, who had been trudging along gloomily, looked up. He was being addressed by a pleasant–faced young woman. A woman actually talking to him by choice was a novelty. Smiling while doing so was unheard of.

'Er yeah. Right. That's me.' He swallowed…'Beti.'

'My name is Bana. Would you like to come and talk with us?'

Nobby looked past her. There were a number of women of varying ages sitting around a large well. One of them waved at him shyly.

He blinked. This was uncharted territory. He looked down at his clothes, which were already the worse for wear. His clothes always looked the worse for wear five minutes after he'd put them on.

'Oh, don't worry,' said the girl. 'We know how it is. But you looked so alone.

And perhaps you can help us...

They were among the group now._ There were women of every legitimate shape and size, and so far none of them had said 'Yuk,' an experience hithertounchronicled in Nobby's personal history. In a detached, light–headed way, Corporal Nobbs felt that he was entering Paradise, and it was only an unfortunate detail that he'd come to via the wrong door.

'We are trying to comfort Netal,' said the girl. 'Her betrothed won't marry her tomorrow.'

'The swine,' said Nobby.

'I'll tell you this, girls,' he said. 'I wish I'd settled for the tendollar version. Don't you just sometimes want to sit down and cry?'

'You look even sadder than Netal,' said Bana. 'Isn't there some way we can cheer you up?'

Nobby stared at her for a moment, and then started to sob.

Another interesting thing is after becoming comfrotable with her new friends and identity, Beti is actually just called Beti and reffered to as she/her. I think this is where it stops being an act and becomes Nobby actually discovering something about himself and realising

Nobby realized that a change had come over the group. Now he was surrounded by women who were in the presence of a man. A known man, he corrected himself.

Several of them were blushing. They hadn't blushed before.

'Why not?' said Beti nastily.

'You'll offend people,' said Colon uncertainly.

'Yeah, and they laughed even though they don't have the same kind of doorbells here,' said Nobby. 'Here, you don't have to go–'

But the group around the well was dispersing. Water jugs were being picked

up and carried away. A kind of preoccupied busyness came over the women.

Bana nodded at Beti. 'Er... thank you. It's been very... interesting. But we must go. It was so kind of you to talk to us.'

'Er, no, don't go...'

A faint suggestion of perfume hung in the air.

Beti glared at Colon. 'Sometimes I really want to give you a right ding alongside the lughole,' she growled. 'My first bloody chance in years and you––

She still does this after they've left the city:

'Here, look, those palm trees down there look really small.'

'Nobby, you're scared of heights,' said Colon. 'I know you're scared of heights.'

'That's sexual stereotyping!'

'No, it's not!'

'Yes, it is! You'll be expecting me to break my ankle a lot and scream all the time next! It's my job to prove to you that a woman can be as good as a man!'

'Practically identical in your case, Nobby. You've caught too much sun, that's what it is. You are not female, Nobby!'

Beti sniffed. 'That's just the sort of sexist remark I'd expect from you.'

'Well, you're not!'

'It's the principle of the thing.'

And It's just great how Nobby starts the book by looking for how to get a girlfriend as a sort of vague life goal and ends up being pen pals with one of the girls from Klatch, a girl friend who he likes to talk too I always love when media breaks down the gender divide and lets characters peak through to the other side and realise that (shocking I know) men, women and all those outside the spectrum are just people like you. It really just enforces the message of the whole book.

I also like how this isn't just a one off joke, but in future books we find out Nobby now has taken up cross dressing and does it both casually and for undercover work for the watch. It's just a part of his character now and people accept it.

[zef-zef]

Beti - Obama Ondoua Ebini (performed by Groupe François-Marie Ngoa) from: VA - Musiques du Cameroon (Ocora, 1965)

The Beti people are a Bantu ethnic group primarily found in central Cameroon

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[approximateknowledge]

so ive been slowly chipping away at discworld in what's functionally a totally random order and i just finished jingo today and...

angua and carrot my beloveds

hey terry are we just gonna ignore the whole beti thing?

like he wrote this after say, monstrous regiment, right? and there's not a shred of malice in the writing. but it's not brought up again in thud! or night watch despite both being later chronologically

what did this mean terry what is up with nobby i have so many questions what have you done to me?!

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[christellekedi]

Ekan (Fang-Beti) from Cameroon is one of the largest group in central Africa with 20% (6 millions inhabitants), 80% of Equatorial Guinea (820 000), 40% of Gabonese population (1 200 000) and some solid presence in Sao Tome e Principe and Congo Brazzaville.

Here wearing a traditional outfit for a wedding ceremony in Lilles. Clothing is made of raphia

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#beti #haq (at Lahore, Pakistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWLmm0bM2rp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kemetic-dreams]

The Beti people are a Central African ethnic group primarily found in central Cameroon.They are also found in Equatorial Guinea and northern Gabon. They are closely related to the Bulu people, the Fang people and the Yaunde people, who are all sometimes grouped as Beti-Pahuin peoples.

The Beti are found in northern regions of their joint demographic distributions, the Fang in the southern regions, and others in between. Estimates of the total Beti population vary, with many sources placing them at over three million spread from the Atlantic coastal regions near Equatorial Guinea into the hilly, equatorial forest covered highlands of central Africa reaching into the Congo

The Beti people are Bantu people who once lived in northern parts of Central Africa, with a complex, undocumented and debated prehistory. They likely moved into equatorial Africa in the seventh or eighth century, then further southwest in central Cameroon between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, likely after waves of wars and slave raids from the Fulani people. They were also a targeted source for slaves and ivory by the Hausa people.

Their initial migration in the 17th century was from highlands and forested regions east of the Sanaga River towards south and west. They continued to face jihads and violence from the north by the Fulani people (also called Fulbe or Fula people), abandoned their settlements and migrated further into southern parts of central Cameroon till the 19th century when European traders and colonial forces intervened as they sought trade and markets.The first European power to create a colony that partly included the lands of the Beti people was the German Kamerun colony in 1884. After the first world war, the German colony was taken over, divided by the French and the British colonial powers

Allegations of cannibalism

In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu met the Beti people. He published a memoir about them in 1863. The memoir mentions his arrival on the Atlantic coast and being told by local people about the cannibalistic Beti people. When Du Chaillu met the Beti people, he saw skulls and bones near their settlement. He immediately took these for cannibalism and wrote about it in his memoir. Later visitors such as the ethnographer Mary Kingsley in 1893–1895, who did not speak the Beti language or live with the local people, saw the same sighting, and titled her book "A Victorian Woman Explorer among the Man-eaters".

In 1912, a Christian missionary named Father Trilles visited them, learned the Beti language, and wrote a more objective ethnographic account of the Beti people. More accounts about the Beti people began appearing after World War I, but were often stereotypical and most emphasized about their alleged practice of containing bone relics in reliquary boxes. These alleged practices were used to justify violence against them and the enslavement of Beti and Fang peoples.When their villages were raided, thousands of their wooden idols and villages were burnt by the slave raiders.The French and the British colonial officials suppressed these practices.

The Tarzan character (1918) was set among the Beti people of equatorial central Africa.

As scholarship about the Beti people grew in the 1900s, according to John Shoup, the collected evidence suggests that the early rumors and allegations of cannibalism were wrong.The Beti people were not cannibalistic, the skulls and bones in the open and in the reliquary boxes were actually of their ancestors. The practice of collecting the bones were a way of remembrance and religious reverence for their dead

                                 The Tarzan story The initial reports of alleged cannibalism attracted widespread attention, supported the oft-stereotyped and presumed African barbarianism, then became a part of fiction and popular literature at the turn of the 20th century. Among the most famous was the novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which created the popular Tarzan character. Burroughs set his novel near the village of Mbonga, among the Beti people and their closely related ethnic group called the Fang people.

The initial Tarzan story, where infant John is discovered by apes and raised by a female ape, built on the colonial era stereotype of cannibalistic Africans in the equatorial forests.The story, states Shoup, provided a contrast of "pure uncorrupted" noble Tarzan in the midst of a barbaric cannibalistic society. The Tarzan syndicate became a global sensation, was widely followed, created some 89 movies in the 100 years that followed, and launched numerous comic strips and television series, many of which providing a distorted stereotyped view about the people from the African equatorial forest.

The traditional occupation of the Beti people is farming, particularly of yams, cassava, corn and plantains as staples. Since colonial times, many have adopted cash crops such as peanuts and cacao.They are skilled artists and craftsmen, particularly in iron and wood handicrafts. However, these craftsmanship are nearly extinct because of urbanization and modern trade flows.

The traditional Beti society has been organized at the village level, typically with its borders fenced and fortified with watch towers to protect the inhabitants from wild life of the rain forests and intruders. Outside the village compounds were carefully concealed traps, as another line of defense against slave raiders. The villages have tended to be politically independent of each other, centered on a lineage called Ayon or Mvog.They are a patrilineal people, and disputes are typically settled by a due process led by a headman. The Beti revere their ancestors, and known among other things for their artistically produced reliquary boxes called the Byeri. They store the bones of their ancestors in these reliquary boxes, which were used during rites of passage, with their sophisticated masks called So (animal-faced) and Ngil (human-faced).

The Beti people practise double exogamy, that is typically married away from both father's and mother's lineages. Another notable aspect of their society has been the concept of Mebala, a type of potlatch, where wealthy families ceremoniously gather and give away their wealth to the poorer families

[doodleferp]

Currently loving the new Disney+ show Earth to Ned

It’s literally about an alien hosting a talk show because scouting our planet converted him and his crew into pop culture nerds

I love it so much