Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Difficult heritage

Spanish translation:

difícil/arduo legado

Added to glossary by Patricia ONeill
Jan 25, 2013 11:45
11 yrs ago
English term

Difficult heritage

English to Spanish Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Hi! I would like your help in finding a suitable translation for this phrase in the following context:

“The difficult heritage is concerned with histories and pasts that do not easily fit with self-identities of the groups of whose pasts or histories they are part. Instead of affirming positive self-images, they potentially disrupt them or may threaten to open up social differences and conflicts. Difficult heritage deals in unsettling histories rather than the kinds of heroic or progressive histories with which museums and heritage sites have more traditionally been associated.”

So far, the best I have managed is "herencias difíciles".

Thanks for your time!

Proposed translations

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difícil/arduo legado

Diría yo...
Peer comment(s):

agree Victoria Frazier
6 hrs
Gracias Victoria!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Muchas gracias Carmen!"
+1
6 mins

herencia incómoda

...ya que no encaja con las señas de identidad actuales del grupo social en cuestión.
Peer comment(s):

agree Yaotl Altan
4 hrs
gracias, un saludo.
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34 mins

herencias perjudiciales

This is a tentative offering:

With reference to the context given above, perhaps connotations of the word 'perjudicial' tie in with all three concepts of disruption, harm and feelings of unease felt by such grougps?
Note from asker:
Gracias por tu ayuda! El contexto es un estudio sobre patrimonios culturales, en particular aquellos que no honran al pueblo que los hereda.
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49 mins

arduo pasado

Herencia o pasado difícil que llevar consigo, pasado díficil de conllevar, les lleva a no tener buena imagen de sí mismos...
Example sentence:

Su arduo pasado debido a sus antecedentes familiares de alcoholismo.

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1 hr

legado/pasado deshonroso

Del que el pueblo no puede sentirse orgulloso, sino todo lo contrario.
¡Suerte, Patricia!
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1 hr

el espinoso legado (patrimonial)

Otra opción
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+1
2 hrs

pasado conflictivo

Otra opción.
Peer comment(s):

agree Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
41 mins
Muchas gracias, Beatriz.
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