What is it about?
This article explores the work of fetish in practices of consumption at a charity shop in contemporary Margate (UK).
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Why is it important?
In this article, through the analytical use of the word ‘fetish’, we allow alterity to emerge ‘within’ trivial and taken-for-granted practices that take place in the UK.
Perspectives
This article discusses the multiple and autonomous nature of objects, their complex biographies and their power and impact on people's routines and practices. It intends to challenge theoretical perspectives that take the object as a passive container for human action.
Dr Ana Carolina ACB Balthazar
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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This page is a summary of: Old things with character: The fetishization of objects in Margate, UK, Journal of Material Culture, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1359183516662676.
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