ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with the making of lo indigena in education through "anthropology, its experts, institutions", categories, and the people. Anthropological institutions developed ways of reasoning that produced ways of ordering curriculum in the making of teacher education and what is "indigenous" and teacher education. The larger animating risk in the chapter has been to attempt to complicate the trajectory of how difference is fabricated in the re-making of people in order to enable the discourse of diversity/plurality in education. The classroom and the colonial patio as actual spaces offer a gesture for the virtual spaces available for planning and performing education. Indigenismo as a series of ideas can be noticed in the wave-like effect that is the caricaturization in the students' performance of "the India", in the employment of the culturalist discourse. Historical trajectories, analyzed from the two moments of intensity that are indigenism and cultural pluralism, in their multiple manifestations, produce ways of ordering teacher preparation curricula.
