The Resource A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo, Allen F. Roberts
A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo, Allen F. Roberts
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- 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."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 311 pages
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780253007438
- Label
- A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo
- Title
- A dance of assassins
- Title remainder
- performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo
- Statement of responsibility
- Allen F. Roberts
- Subject
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- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908
- Ethnological museums and collections -- Belgium
- Hegemony -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
- Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884
- Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918
- Belgians -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- 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."--
- Assigning source
- Publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- IEN/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Roberts, Allen F.
- Dewey number
- 325.3493096751
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- African expressive cultures
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph
- Lusinga
- Belgians
- Hegemony
- Ethnological museums and collections
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Label
- A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo, Allen F. Roberts
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-297) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- FIEb17279677
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 311 pages
- Isbn
- 9780253007438
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)773025040
- Label
- A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo, Allen F. Roberts
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-297) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- FIEb17279677
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 311 pages
- Isbn
- 9780253007438
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)773025040
Subject
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908
- Ethnological museums and collections -- Belgium
- Hegemony -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
- Lusinga, approximately 1840-1884
- Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph, 1846-1918
- Belgians -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
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