Indigenous Peoples: Globalization, Resistance, and Revitalization

Indigenous peoples represent the most complex and longitudinally historical social issues and societies on earth, posing analytical problems across many social science disciplines. This issue of American Behavioral Scientist addresses the issues and central importance of indigenous peoples of the world, within three critically necessary frames for analysis: globalization, resistance to domination, and revitalization related to cultural survival. Many of the contributing authors utilize world systems analysis in their descriptions with temporal and spatial understandings of the indigenous people they illustrate, as well as making every effort to keep an “indigenous perspective” whenever possible.