Issue 25.2, May 2010   How can indigeneity be approached
experimentally, continuing Cultural Anthropology’s long
established commitment to provide space to question, test, and
play with established formulations of how the world works, and
should be studied? How have constructions of indigenous and
minority status in a given region changed over time, and what
kinds of political and legal infrastructure have been involved?
 How have local, academic, and political notions of indigeneity
traveled across regions and fields of action? What roles have
groups granted indigenous and minority status played in
stabilizing, contesting, or otherwise negotiating their status? 
What are the range of interests in play in designating
indigenous and minority rights, and what examples of innovative
governance of these interests can be brought to bear in future
governance efforts?  How have governing mechanisms traveled, and
how can vast differences among terrains of application be
accounted for and addressed?  -- Editors’ Intro