Fetish

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Fetish may refer to:

Anthropological uses

• Fetishism, the attribution of religious or mystical qualities to inanimate objects, known as fetishes
• Zuni fetishes, small carvings from various stones, made by the Zuni Indians
• Imiut fetish, in ancient Egypt a stuffed, headless animal skin tied by the tail to a pole
• Fetish priest, in countries of West Africa, a person who serves as a mediator between the spirit and the living

Sexual

• Sexual fetishism, a sexual focus on non-traditional turn-ons
• Fetish culture, a social movement constructed around sexual fetishism

Arts

• Fetish (album) (1999), by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
• Fetish, a fictional superheroine in the Bomb Queen series
• The Great Fetish, a science fiction novel by L. Sprague de Camp

Business

• Commodity fetishism, a Marxist concept of valuation in capitalist markets
• Venturi Fétish, a car produced by Venturi Automobilesiguation
• Growth Fetish, a 2003 book by Clive Hamilton advocating a zero-growth economy among "developed" nations