Spanish Abstract: Este texto surgio a partir de una investigacion sobre arte latinoamericano, basada en la idea de desarrollar un acercamiento y un analisis historiografico relacionado con el tema “Artistas latinoamericanos: afinidades y coincidencias en torno a lo ancestral, el rito, el mito y el simbolo”, una lectura critica que aportara un material pertinente a la historia del arte regional y universal. Es necesario reconocer el abordaje que muchos artistas hacen de temas afines al numen, los arquetipos, lo ancestral, lo ritual, el pensamiento magico y otros topicos, dado que en su propuesta formal o en sus conceptualizaciones coinciden en la pretension de re-significar o recuperar ecos del pasado prehistorico y precolombino. A partir de una aproximacion interdisciplinar desde una base metodologica y un aparato critico y bibliografico novedoso, emergio la necesidad de delimitar y contextualizar sus obras artisticas a modo de fetiches contemporaneos, que implican en su iconografia la presencia de remanentes fenomenologicos y conceptuales del mundo mitico, la magia y la religion. Los valores del fetiche como objeto estetico, sagrado, o devocional permiten al mismo tiempo la “ritualizacion” de imaginarios miticos. Por ultimo, se desarrollan ideas sobre la obra de arte como objeto simbolico y polisemico, y su insercion en las dinamicas culturales. English Abstract: This paper emerged out of a research on Latin American art based on the idea of developing a historiographic approach and analysis on the subject “Latin American Artists: affinities and similarities regarding the ancestral, rituals, myths, and symbols”, a critical reading that will provide information on local and international art with relevant material. It is fair to acknowledge the approach that many artists have about numen-related topics: archetypes, the ancestral world, rituals, magical thinking and other subjects, given the fact that in their artistic ideas or in their conceptualizations many artists agree on their will to resignify or recover echoes of pre-Columbian and prehistoric world.From an interdisciplinary approach with a methodological base and a new critical and bibliographical apparatuses, an attempt was made to delimit and contextualize the artwork of these artists as contemporary fetishes, which in their iconography involve phenomenological and conceptual remnants of the world of myth, magic and religion. The values of the fetish as an aesthetic, sacred, and devotional object, allow at the same time, the ritualization of mythic imagination. Lastly, some ideas about the work of art as symbolic and polysemic object, as well as its inclusion in the cultural dynamics are developed.