Talk:Fetishism

message: Should be moved to the simpler word fetish? —Ashley Y 04:00, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
:I don't think it should be moved, because the word fetish has another meaning - but maybe the disambiguation for fetish should be named fetishism, because it explains the different meanings of fetishism (and not fetish). 195.14.205.58 (talk) 23:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: At least there should be an article about "fetish". Actually, this article starts by defining a fetish and not "fetishism". If one should have an article about fetishism there should definitely be one about fetish (and not just a disambiguation page). Fetish is prior to fetishism! --Oddeivind (talk) 17:20, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move? 

message: I question the relevance of listing in detail how the subject is (mis)interpreted in four different computer games. This is not meaningful to the average reader, and has little to to with the topic in question. Suggest this info should be moved to a different topic specifically related to computer games. Geira 19:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Computer Games

message: there needs to be a section of this page dedicated to Slavoj Zizek's and Jacques Lacan's theory of the fetish. It's one of the most common modern uses of the word in last ten years of philosophy, and it's omission is disturbing. (Impaler2g19 21:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zizek 

message: "That said, some artifacts of monotheistic religions are fetishes according to ethnography and anthropology. For example in the Christian monotheistic religion, the Holy Cross and consecrated host are examples of fetishism. However, this vision is denied by monotheist practitioners." 
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It needs to be made clear that this is only the case with some forms of Christianity (e.g. Catholic). Many Protestants (and others) would give no inherent significance at all to these physical objects. The cross is merely where Jesus died - it's his death that's important. In my own tradition, it is always made very clear that the bread and wine are only symbols.
I've adapted a little. However, I don't know what the final sentence in the quote above means - unclear.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.124.145 (talk) 16:04, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian Fetishism 

message: The representations of meanings of Native American fetishes is overly generic. Particular animals may have had particular meanings within particular knowledge traditions, but not all Native Americans assigned animals the same meanings. Second, I question the classification of animals themselves as fetishes. As I understand it, fetishes are objects that are almost always human-made or at the least human-handled. It would be more appropriate to link to the Zuni fetishes page and to delete or radically revise this paragraph.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tabascom (talk • contribs) 16:15, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Practice 

message: This article does mention sexual fetishism but it does not make clear that there is a significant meaning gap between Anthropological English and common (street, colloquial) English; religion versus sexual. It needs to make it clear that in colloquial English fetishism purely relates to sexual fetishism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alaricsmith (talk • contribs) 18:15, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarity on anthropological meaning vrs common English (sexual) meaning 

message: Who added this nonsense? 
"In Western culture everyone agrees with Freud because they like all homosexuality and as a Western implication the fetishism of ordinary and normal sexual foot fetishism as discovering the feet is not shame even that men put on the nail polish of the toes of the feet And women can not find their buttocks in the breast."
Purge, please?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.130.173.28 (talk) 20:18, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird sentences? 

message: The article refers to and quotes one “William McGaffey”. Surely, this is Wyatt McCaffey. Since he has no article, shouldn’t he be refereres to as “anthropologist Wyatt McGaffey”? Butcherpete (talk) 02:44, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  William McGaffey? 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ARH 371_The TransAtlantic_Cross-Cultural Representations