This book presents recent research on the cultural revival and the construction of indigeneity in the South Pacific. Beginning with Kenneth Maddock's, "Revival, Renaissance, and the Meaning of Modern Constructions in Australia, " the book moves onto essays about Maori society, including discussions on Maori assertions of indigeneity, the post-colonial traumatic stress disorder, and Holocaust denial. Jacqueline Leckie concludes this important book with her study of the return to Nukulau: the troubled waters of ethno-nationalism in Fiji.

The book offers an ethnography of the Muslim minority in New Zealand with special emphasis on policy aspects relevant to the integration of Muslims in the host society. The book also discusses many other issues, such as Muslim political representation, inner coherence of the Muslim community, differentiated citizenship, gender issues and gender equality, and points of friction with the host society.

Freedom of speech and expression is considered in the West a high public good and an important social value, underpinned by legislative and ethical norms. Its importance is not shared to the same extent by conservative and devout Muslims, who read Islamic doctrines in ways seemingly incompatible with Western notions of freedom of speech. Since the Salman Rushdie affair in the 1980s there has been growing recognition in the West that its cherished value of free speech and associated freedoms relating to arts, the press and media, literature, academia, critical satire etc. episodically clash...