TY - JOUR
TI - The ozan or the unstoppable desire to "eat good foods" among the Bulu of South Cameroon:
AU - Elom, Paul Ulrich Otye
TI - The ozan or the unstoppable desire to "eat good foods" among the Bulu of South Cameroon:
AB - Anthropology of addiction to pepper in negro-culture In bulu context, eating well means eat foods of animal origin, which generally puts a lot of condiments, particularly pepper considered as the key ingredient in the preparation of this type of food. In this socioculture where members are accustomed to eat mostly vegetables, the ozan expresses this natural desire that everyone can have for these preferential foods which are meat and fish resources. However, it is important to distinguish having the ozan, a desire that everyone can have, and be ozan that subsumes the individual finds it difficult to do without this type of food, and traduce in this cultural context, a pathological state which can causes a systematic rejection of dishes where pepper does not enter into the composition. This article aims to show how the unstoppable desire of pepper called ozan may appear both as a normal eating behavior and as an anomic one.
VL - 2015
IS - Numéro 7 Addictions
PY - 2015
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 107
EP - 121
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.15.007.3637
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/lozan-ou-le-desir-pruritique-de-manger-bon-chez-les-bulu-du-sud-cameroun-une-anthropologie-de-laddiction-au-piment-en-negro-culture
KW - ozan
KW - food
KW - food addiction
KW - food deviance
KW - pepper