feticos, a Portuguese adjective meaning, "artificial" or, as a secondary translation, "a charm of enchantment" or "sorcery".
Did someone at the AP (or a sub-editor at the Morning News) jump to conclusions based on the other meaning of "fetish"?
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Words: Fetish
There was an Associated Press report in yesterday's Dallas Morning News about an indictment in the New Mexico dragging case. The victim was said to work as a "carver" in a "sexually related ornament shop". This seems to be the homepage of the "ornament shop", which specialises in Native American fetishes. An information page at M & M Trading Company relates the word to:
Did someone at the AP (or a sub-editor at the Morning News) jump to conclusions based on the other meaning of "fetish"?
Did someone at the AP (or a sub-editor at the Morning News) jump to conclusions based on the other meaning of "fetish"?
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