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Author:
Roberts, Allen F., 1945-
Title:
A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo / Allen F. Roberts.
Publisher:
Indiana University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
311 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Colonization.
Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--To 1908.
Storms, Émile Pierre Joseph,--1846-1918.
Lusinga,--ca. 1840-1884.
Belgians--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--19th century.
Hegemony--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--19th century.
Ethnological museums and collections--Belgium.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-297) and index.
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.
Series:
African expressive cultures
ISBN:
0253007593 (eb)
9780253007599 (eb)
025300750X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253007506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253007437 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780253007438 (cl. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)773025040
LCCN:
2012030702
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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