| Description |
1 online resource |
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African expressive cultures |
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African expressive cultures.
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| 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 |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918.
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Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884.
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Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884 fast |
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Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918 fast |
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Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884. fast/nic/nac |
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Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918. fast/nic/nac |
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Belgians -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
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Hegemony -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
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Ethnological museums and collections -- Belgium
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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ART -- African.
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Belgians
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Colonization
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Ethnological museums and collections
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Hegemony
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Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization
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Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149565
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Belgium
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012030702 |
| ISBN |
9780253007599 |
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0253007593 |
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