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Author Roberts, Allen F., 1945-

Title A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo / Allen F. Roberts.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Contents The "emperor" strikes back. Invitation to a beheading -- A conflict of memories -- Histories made by bodies -- Tropical gothic -- Storms the headhunter. Remembering the dismembered. The rise of a colonial macabre -- Art évo on the Chaussée d'Ixelles -- Lusinga's lasting laughs -- Composing decomposition -- Defiances of the dead.
Summary A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treatise, while his ancestral figure is now considered a treasure of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918.
Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918.
Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884.
Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884.
Storms, Emile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918.
Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884.
Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884.
Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918.
Belgians -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century.
Belgians.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Hegemony -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century.
Hegemony.
Ethnological museums and collections -- Belgium.
Ethnological museums and collections.
Belgium.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization.
Colonization.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908.
Chronological Term To 1908
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781283869942 (DLC) 2012030702
ISBN 9780253007599 (electronic book)
0253007593 (electronic book)
0253007437
9780253007438
9781283869942
1283869942
9780253007506
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