ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines global and local perspectives on the safeguarding of intangible heritage and its museological articulations. It engages with other paradigms of cultural transmission beyond ideas of loss, salvage, and authenticity. The book consideres intangible heritage as cultural practices that is renewed and recreated by practitioners, providing a new approach to cultural dialogue and communication. It argues for the need to rethink modern preservationism and the associated fears of cultural loss and homogenisation. The book examines the five museums have all engaged in different ways with various community groups. Central to the exploration of how museums engage with intangible heritage has been the examination of their relations with diverse communities and more specifically with members of ethnic, diasporic, and Indigenous groups. A further implication of the participatory paradigm is the idea of performance as a defining feature of new museological work.
