01872nas a2200253   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001300043653002200056653001200078653002400090653001700114100001800131700002000149700001600169700002000185700001800205245008300223856015400306300001100460490000700471520112000478022002001598                                       d10aDisaster10acultural heritage10acyclone10aintangible heritage10atransmission1 aChris Ballard1 aMeredith Wilson1 aYoko Nojima1 aRichard Matanik1 aRichard Shing00aDisaster as Opportunity? Cyclone Pam and the Transmission of Cultural Heritage  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85070311553&doi=10.1080%2f00664677.2019.1647825&partnerID=40&md5=7a3549133433fa10a78e895049b45fa7  a91-1070 v303 aCulture, by its very nature, is always at risk of change–whether through transformation, destruction or redefinition. So how might culture be said to be particularly at risk in the context of ‘natural’ disasters, and how are disasters ‘naturalised’ or incorporated under the terms of different cultural regimes? An earlier focus on the impacts to built or tangible heritage is increasingly being balanced by a concern for the transformations wrought by disasters in the intangible heritage of communities. Through the recent event of Cyclone Pam in 2015, and a case study of the World Heritage site of Chief Roi Mata’s Domain (CRMD), we explore the ways in which repetitive natural hazards have shaped culture and tangible and intangible forms of heritage in Vanuatu. We focus in particular on the issue of cultural transmission at CRMD and its relationship to natural hazards through the device of a ‘disaster biography’. Risk can also carry with it the prospect of opportunity, and our paper seeks to understand how opportunity might be present in post-disaster reworkings of culture and heritage.  a00664677 (ISSN)