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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Main Author: Régis Ollomo Ella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie 2020-12-01
Series:Revue d'ethnoécologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/6211
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description 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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Onyùmə́nyùmà, le règne olfactif chez les Fang-Ntumu du Gabon
Revue d'ethnoécologie
Ntumu
smell
Fang
olfactive feeling
smell origins
smell categorization
title Onyùmə́nyùmà, le règne olfactif chez les Fang-Ntumu du Gabon
title_full Onyùmə́nyùmà, le règne olfactif chez les Fang-Ntumu du Gabon
title_fullStr Onyùmə́nyùmà, le règne olfactif chez les Fang-Ntumu du Gabon
title_full_unstemmed Onyùmə́nyùmà, le règne olfactif chez les Fang-Ntumu du Gabon
title_short Onyùmə́nyùmà, le règne olfactif chez les Fang-Ntumu du Gabon
title_sort onyumənyuma le regne olfactif chez les fang ntumu du gabon
topic Ntumu
smell
Fang
olfactive feeling
smell origins
smell categorization
url https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/6211
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