en un aura fetichizante

English translation: in a fetishistic/fetishizing aura

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Spanish term or phrase:	en un aura fetichizante
English translation:	in a fetishistic/fetishizing aura
Entered by:	Mónica Algazi

15:29 Apr 9, 2016

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Journalism / Article about an artist

Spanish term or phrase: en un aura fetichizante

Context:

En otros casos se explicita la intención museográfica de que ciertas piezas de claro estatus etnográfico (artefacto/abrecartas, artefacto/libro, artefacto/ladrillo, artefacto/souvenir) se incluyan en un aura fetichizante que las predispone a ser leídas bajo códigos diferentes a los que demanda el uso corriente de esos objetos.

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in a fetish-like aura/fetish-like importance

Explanation:
The Construction of Professional Discourse
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1317890035
B.L. Gunnarsson, ‎Per Linell, ‎Bengt Nordberg - 2014 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
Texts have in fact retained a fetish-like importance which, ironically, has become ... Loss of the aura of the document in the electronic era Like all physical objects ...
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0822323915
Laura U. Marks - 2000 - ‎Performing Arts
The works discussed in this chapter bring the fetishistic, auratic ... practices that both materializes and dissolves the fetishlike and fossil-like quality of the image.
Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0812201175
Cristina Bacchilega - 2011 - ‎Business & Economics
... but—fashioned as a pin or pendant—it had become a precious souvenir, its fetishlike, nostalgic aura making it an appropriate promotional image.21 But the ...

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oh,

sorry

fetishistic aura

Sharpe: "The Logo as Fetish: Marxist Themes in Naomi ...
clogic.eserver.org/2003/sharpe.html
by M Sharpe - ‎Cited by 2 - ‎Related articles
Indeed, I take it that this is what the Marxian critique of commodity fetishism in .... in the logo's absolute subordination of use value to its fetishistic aura, the as it ...

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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:43

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in a fetish-like aura/fetish-like importance

liz askew

in a fetishizing/fetishistic aura

Cecilia Gowar

(have) fetish connotations

ormiston

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in a fetish-like aura/fetish-like importance

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:43
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thank you to all of you.

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Liz!

Asker: And yes, something along the line of 'embued with a fetishistic aura' may fit the bill here.

1 hr confidence:

in a fetishizing/fetishistic aura

Explanation:
I believe you can use the literal equivalent:

https://goo.gl/IJ2b2i
"...that the corporeal power of the Blanketmen had disseminated its fetishizing aura to all parties of the Northern Ireland conflict."

https://goo.gl/3kSFjE
"The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siecle Olga Matich. against the whole, I would add that decadence infused the part with a fetishizing aura."

http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=453
"Every commodity has a fetishistic aura (a pro jection of its exchange-value) that far exceeds its material and utilitarian properties as a mere ob ject (its use-value)."

Cecilia Gowar
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 68

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks, Cecilia!

3 hrs confidence:

(have) fetish connotations

Explanation:
The term had to fit the preceding verb, so maybe this could work

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And why not your suggestion 'are imbued with'...

ormiston
Local time: 05:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks, Ormiston.

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