Onyùmə́nyùmà, le règne olfactif chez les Fang-Ntumu du Gabon
When you talk about ènyùm ‘’odour’’ to a Fang-Ntumu speaker, his first reaction is disgust. For this people, ènyùm ‘’odour’’ seems to deal with ènyùm àbé ‘’bad odour’’.This paper is about ònyùmə́nyùmà, that Fang-Ntumu’s olfactory surroundings. It will answer to three principal questions: What’s smel...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Revue d'ethnoécologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/6211 |
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| Summary: | When you talk about ènyùm ‘’odour’’ to a Fang-Ntumu speaker, his first reaction is disgust. For this people, ènyùm ‘’odour’’ seems to deal with ènyùm àbé ‘’bad odour’’.This paper is about ònyùmə́nyùmà, that Fang-Ntumu’s olfactory surroundings. It will answer to three principal questions: What’s smell? What does it smell? How does it smell? In this paper we shall identify and classify odorous sources, and producted odours. In addition, we’ll study own Fang-Ntumu odours classification, and determine the deeper principle which explain their olfactory judgment. |
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| ISSN: | 2267-2419 |