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  • De la Saussaye objects to this view on the ground that nature-worship bears the strongest impress of originality, and therefore is not a phase of Fetishism, which is not original.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Dr. Tylor thinks that the opinion rests upon 'a broad philosophy of nature. '{15b} M. Lefebure appeals to psychical phenomena as I show later (see' Fetishism ').

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • Article "Fetishism" in Hastings's Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.

    Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

  • Authorities use the term "Fetishism" as the "(a) worship of inanimate objects, often regarded as purely African; (b) Negro religion in general; (c) the worship of inanimate objects conceived as the residence of spirits not inseparably bound up with, nor originally connected with, such objects; (d) the doctrine of spirits embodied in, or attached to, or conceiving influence through certain material objects; 4

    The Religion of the American Negro Slave: His Attitude Toward Life and Death G. R. Wilson 1923

  • The importance of Totemism in the early history of society was first pointed out by J.F. McLennan, who proposed as a working hypothesis that the ancient nations of the world had passed through a peculiar kind of Fetishism or Animism which finds its typical representation in the totem-tribes of Australia and of North America ( "Fortnightly Rev.",

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • In this situation, Fondlement & Fetishism Potential [F.F.P.] is supplied, without the cost of shipping tons of cardboard around.

    Frank Zappa: Don’t let my music die 2009

  • At the “Role of Fetishism” panel, philosophy professor David Austin of North Carolina State University has determined through rigorous Internet study that the number of “necro[philia] enthusiasts is about three times that of [menstrual] period enthusiasts.”

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • Among professional philosophers her books Prometheus and Hedendaags fetisjisme (Fetishism in Our Time, 1925) were regarded as the work of a self-taught woman, but the judgement of the general public was far from negative and her independence of mind was widely admired.

    Carry Van Bruggen. 2009

  • Judaism also plays a large role in "Present Day Fetishism" and she was prescient enough to know there was a direct line from Chamberlain's "Grundlagen" to Bavarian National Socialists. reply

    Carry Van Bruggen. 2009

  • Towards the end of the first chapter of Das Kapital, after having established the validity of the labor theory of value, Marx has a section on the Fetishism of Commodities.

    What is the Fetishisn of Commodities? 2009

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