The Face of Money: Currency, Crisis, and Remediation in Post-Suharto Indonesia.
When General Suharto stepped down as president of Indonesia after 32 years of authoritarian rule, artist Yuswantoro Adi marked the occasion with an installation. In Anybody Can Be President, the artist presented an oversized 50,000Rp bill painted in photo-realist style with a hole where the portrai...
| Published in: | Cultural Anthropology Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 68 - 104 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
February 2009
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