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or bewitchment. The wide range of objects referred to as fetishes led to a dilution of the term's meaning. Often, objects were classified as fetishes indiscriminately because, from a European perspective, they did not fit into any other category.

According to Pietz, the post-colonial concept of "fetish" emerged from the encounter between Europeans and Africans in a very specific historical context and in response to African material culture.

He begins his thesis with an introduction to the

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