Adjective
emic (comparative more emic, superlative most emic)
(social sciences, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.
We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such. Robert Anton Wilson
Essentially, fetishism is the emic attribution of inherent value or powers to an object. Source: Internet
This is an emic indistinction rather than an etic one. Source: Internet