Fetish, translation and method in intellectual history

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Notes

1 J.H. Holmes, In Primitive New Guinea: An Account of a Quarter of a Century Spent amongst the Primitive Ipi & Namau Groups of Tribes of the Gulf of Papua (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924), 151–2.

2 J.H. Holmes, ‘The Study of the Namau Tribes of the Purari Delta’, Council of World Missions, Papua New Guinea, Personal, Box 3, Folder 4, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

3 See Barbara Cassin et al., Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014).