Some comments on the historical role of fetishism in economic anthropology

Giuseppe Iurato (1)

1 Department of Physics

Following an interdisciplinary approach going through the grounds of psychological anthropology, symbolic anthropology, sociology and ethnography, pursued with an historical methodology, in this paper we wish to argue about the role played by fetishism in economic anthropology and its possible applications. Anyway, what emerges is the primary importance of the occurrence of fetishism in the rising of human symbolic function.

Mots clés: quality; symbolism; disavowal; fetishism; number; quantity

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Giuseppe Iurato. Some comments on the historical role of fetishism in economic anthropology. Journal of Global Economics, Management and Business Research, 2016. ⟨hal-01194411⟩