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Nineteenth-century Americans and Europeans collected locks of hair from the living and the dead alike, fetishizing these keepsakes.
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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
In a country that fetishizes productivity, the beach celebrates the absence of achievement.
—David Litt, Time, 28 July 2025
If Welch’s considerable foibles have been dropped from the legend, the timeline bungled, the alcoholism and probable mental illness minimized, the use of racial epithets and the overt misogyny ignored, his death fetishized into a form of transfiguration . . .
—Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 26 June 2025
Here was a country that demanded movement, that fetishized the pioneering spirit, yet my family in South Asia had, during the 1947 partition of India, known far more upheaval within living memory than my husband’s.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
In a country that fetishizes productivity, the beach celebrates the absence of achievement.
—David Litt, Time, 28 July 2025
If Welch’s considerable foibles have been dropped from the legend, the timeline bungled, the alcoholism and probable mental illness minimized, the use of racial epithets and the overt misogyny ignored, his death fetishized into a form of transfiguration . . .
—Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 26 June 2025
Here was a country that demanded movement, that fetishized the pioneering spirit, yet my family in South Asia had, during the 1947 partition of India, known far more upheaval within living memory than my husband’s.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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“Fetishize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetishize. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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