Description

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Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai presents in a new way, and in a new light, the ancient art of tattooing among the Maori people.

About the Author

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Robert K. Paterson is a professor emeritus of law at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. He obtained his law degree in New Zealand and then completed a JSM at Stanford Law School in California. He has written extensively in the area of cultural property and art law, including co-authoring Cultural Law: International, Comparative, and Indigenous (Cambridge, 2010). He was rapporteur of the Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association, of which he remains a member. He is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Property and the director's advisory council of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.