CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

This article discusses how some current transnational relations between global agents and indigenous peoples' organizations from Latin America, combinedly with being useful in the achievement of these organizations goals for their peoples, impress the representations of identities and associated ideas of these organizations. Such a discussion serves to two main purposes: a) contributing to the development of a theory of social change in the current age of globalization through criticizing the established scholar practice of studying "local" cases as if they actually exist, or as if they may at least be detached from the world orders of which they take part without any significant consequence; and b) criticizing the colonial legacy of area studies, anthropology, and other academic disciplines of studying "the Other," very often the indigenous peoples, to inform the agents of the colonial or postcolonial powers, and essaying to produce knowledge potentially useful to "local" agents about "global" agents, their practices, and the impact they may have on "local" agents practices.

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