ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to take some small steps towards entering the black box of mind, brain, and cognition by relating cognition to the formation of identities and subjectivities, and specifically to the indigenous identities and subjectivities, and to the broader general themes: the production and cognition of spaces and subjectivities, and the cognitive dimensions of spaces and subjectivities. It shows the anthropological treatments of identity seldom go beyond a rather superficial invocation of cognition and 'the cognitive'. Anthropology is probably the social science discipline most resistant to engaging with cognitive and brain sciences, and especially with the real bogeyman, evolutionary psychology. The processes of engaging with the identity categories - whether one accepts those identities uncritically, resists them vehemently, plays along with them to take advantage of them, or whatever in-between combinations of such responses are possible - are definitely in the realm of cognition.
