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- Title
PEQUENA HISTÓRIA DA IDEIA DE FETICHE RELIGIOSO: DE SUA EMERGÊNCIA A MEADOS DO SÉCULO XX.
- Authors
Pires, Rogério Brittes W.
- Abstract
The idea of religious fetish, which emerged from the Afro-European encounter over four centuries ago, has a rich history, from its usage by travelers and merchants; through its appropriation by Illuminist thinkers; its radicalization and popularization during the Positivist and Evolutionist periods of western philosophy; until it rapidly declined after it was criticized and pronounced inadequate by modernist anthropology. The aim of this article is to examine the path this concept described. Not from a disinterested perspective, but within the current context of reevaluation of the fetish as a heuristic category, which suggests a parallel reevaluation of the history of the concept.
- Subjects
FETISHISM (Religion); TWENTIETH century; TRAVELERS; MERCHANTS; SECULARIZATION; POSITIVIST ethics; ANTHROPOLOGY
- Publication
Religião e Sociedade, 2011, Vol 31, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
0100-8587
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0100-85872011000100004