According to Hegel, Africans were incapable of abstract thought, their ideas and actions were governed by impulse, and therefore a fetish object could be anything that then was arbitrarily imbued with imaginary powers.In the 19th and 20th centuries, Tylor and McLennan, historians of religion, held that the concept of fetishism fostered a shift of attention away from the relationship between people and God, to focus instead on a relationship between people and material objects, and that this, in turn, allowed for the establishment of false models of causality for natural events. This they saw as religious fetishism for Santa Claus on Christmas day and does not consider the birth of Jesus a central problem historically and sociologically. Practice
The use of the concept in the study of religion derives from studies of traditional West African religious beliefs, as well as from Vodun, which in turn derives from those beliefs. Fetishes were commonly used in some Native American religions and practices. For example, the bear represented the shaman, the buffalo was the provider, the mountain lion was the warrior, and the wolf was the pathfinder the cause of the war. Japan
Kato Genchi cited jewelry, swords, mirrors, and scarves as examples of fetishism in Shintoism.
Types
Lenticonus anterior; lenticonus anterior is part of the waardenburg syndrome
Lenticonus posterior; lenticonus posterior is more common than lenticonus anterior and is sometimes found in Lowe syndromeAlport syndrome mostly causes anterior lenticonus. It can rarely cause posterior lenticonus, but this is uncommon. == References ==