Body Snatching in contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand - A legal conflict between cultures (Paperback)

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 1,00, University of Otago (Law), course: LL.M., language: English, comment: Auszeichnung: A with Distinction Approved by the Maori Ethics Committee A thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Laws, Te Whare W nanga o Ot go, The University of Otago. Dunedin, June, abstract: In recent years, there have been several high profile instances where M ori wh nau1 have taken the body of a loved one against the wishes of other immediate family members for the purposes of burying the relative on ancestral land. A high profile incident occurred in 1995, with the uplifting of the entertainer Billy T. James' body from his home by his uncle, so that, in accordance with M ori custom, the body could lie on a marae2 for a period of mourning. Since the Billy T. James case,3 there have been a number of so-called "body snatching" incidents including the "snatching" of the body of John Takamore, and the "snatching" of the body of Tina Marshall-McMenamin.