Partnerships in the heritage of the displaced

The global heritage conservation community's decision to take seriously the category of intangible heritage has major implications for our partnership with indigenous minorities and displaced people generally. People may think of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage as being mainly concerned with the 'heritage' of performing arts, traditional crafts, ritual practices and other distinct cultural acts that might define the 'difference' of a group in the eyes of outsiders.