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The problem of the fetish, I WILLIAM PIErz But there is one term the indiscriminate use oi which, I believe, has done iniinite harm, the word 'fetish'. The story oi its origin and introduction into West Africa is so well known that I need nQ~"here repeat it. R. 5. Rattray, Ashanti (1923) [tout objet historique est fetiche) Maurice Merieau·Ponty, working note to le Visible et l'invisible (1964) "Fetish" has always been a word of sinister pedigree. Discursively promiscuous and theoretically suggestive, it has always been a word with a past, forever becoming "an embarrassment"! to discipllnes in the human sclences that seek to contain and control fts sense. Yet anthropologists of primitive religion. sociologists of political economy, psychiatrists of sexual deviance, and philosophers of modernist aesthetics have never ceased using the term, even as they testify to its conceptual doubtfulness and referential uncertainty. It seems this word's usage is' always somewhat "indiscriminate," always threatening to slide, as in Merleau.Ponty's tentative proposition, into an lmpossfblv general theory. Yet it is precisely in the surprising history of this word as a comprehensive theoretical term indispensable to such crucial thinkers. as Cornte, Marx, and Freud that the real iriteroisCiplin,at)i int~rest of "fetish" lies. This essay is intended to provide the introductory " discussion to an extensive exploration, of this history, an exploration iharrnust begin with a study of the origin Of the fetish as a word and as a historically significant object. ""'Y thesis is that the fetish, as an idea and a problem, and as a novel object not proper to any prior discrete society. Originated in the cross-cultural spaces of the COJst of West Africa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Of course, origins are never absolute. While I argue that the fetish originated within a novel social formation during "this period through the development oi the pidgin word Fetisso, this word in turn has J lin