From the Editor

As we begin volume 32, I would like to take the time to thank all of those individuals who contributed to the success of volume 31, including the editorial board, the peer reviewers, the contributors, and the readers. As I have noted previously, all journals are inherently collaborative efforts, and American Indian Quarterly strives to be not merely collaborative but communitist in spirit. Thank you all for helping to continue the ongoing and vital discourse in our field through American Indian Quarterly.

We begin this volume with "Ethnography and the Production of Foreignness in Indian Captivity Narratives" by Yael Ben-zvi. In this article Ben-zvi examines captivity through the lens of critical anthropology, highlighting cultural boundaries and foreignness by examining complex strategies of separation used by both captives and captors.

The remainder of the volume is devoted to a special section, guest-edited by Malea Powell (Miami/Eastern Shawnee) and D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark (Meskwaki). This thematic contribution brings much-needed critical attention to the concepts of "space and place" within the field of American Indian studies. Using the concepts of "homescapes" and "groundwork" as analytical frames, Powell and Clark ask us to consider spatially constituted Indigenous identities and the ways in which those identities produce new ways of understanding "sovereignties and citizenships, racisms and indigeneities." This special section constitutes an excellent example of the type of interdisciplinary, synthetic research so critical to the health of our scholarship.