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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Bibliographic Details
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:http://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/6211