emic

Adjective

Meaning

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.

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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

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