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Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Fetishism Roy Ellen. Jstor article Muriel Garvey. A Kind of Naturalism Lawrence Cahoone. Seek Whence Maya Bar-hillel. Jsah article Ruth Dusseault. Classificatory end-products to which the word 'fetish' has been applied cannot be understood simply as special kinds of objects, or defined in terms of their generic functional attributes.
Neither do they reflect a particular mental condition. Rather, they reveal a variable combination of three underlying features of categorisation and representation characteristic of all thought. These are concretisation, animation or anthropomorphisation, conflation of signifier with signified, and an ambiguous relationship of control between person and object. All lie on a processual continuum which begins with the identification of categories, relationships and phenomena, and proceeds-via reification and iconification-to their personification.
In this sequence what we might loosely describe as 'fetishisation' appears with a shift from the balanced simultaneity of signifier and signified towards 'the thing in itself'. During the last decade analyses of the various connexions between cognition and collective representations, mind and culture, and between 'mundane' and 'symbolic' classifications, have all received a certain degree of prominence in the professional anthropological literature.
