The Broken Ear
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The Broken Ear is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its childr
Cover of the English edition
Paraguayan troops in Alihuatá, 1932, during the Chaco War
A scene from The Broken Ear on the cover of Le Petit Vingtième
The Chimú statuette from the Cinquantenaire Museum that was copied into the adventure by Hergé.
Fetishism
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Fetishism is a category of contemporary scholarly discourse first employed to describe religious and cross-cultural hierarchy. It refers to the asymmetrical attribution of values and power to material
The Broken Ear
…from December 1935 to February 1937. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, as he searches for a stolen South American fetish, identifiable by its broken right ear, and deals with other thieves who are after it. In doing so, he ends up in the fictional nation of San Theodoros…
A voodoo fetish market in Lomé, Togo, 2008