03026nam 2200649 a 450 991077936660332120211115223130.01-283-86994-20-253-00759-3(CKB)2550000000707540(EBL)1100792(OCoLC)824654927(SSID)ssj0000826799(PQKBManifestationID)11464290(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000826799(PQKBWorkID)10826623(PQKB)10212903(MdBmJHUP)muse25577(Au-PeEL)EBL1100792(CaPaEBR)ebr10634615(CaONFJC)MIL418244(MiAaPQ)EBC1100792(EXLCZ)99255000000070754020120727d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA dance of assassins[electronic resource] performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo /Allen F. RobertsBloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (326 p.)African expressive culturesDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00750-X 0-253-00743-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 1880's. 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 treatAfrican expressive cultures.BelgiansCongo (Democratic Republic)History19th centuryHegemonyCongo (Democratic Republic)History19th centuryEthnological museums and collectionsBelgiumCongo (Democratic Republic)ColonizationCongo (Democratic Republic)HistoryTo 1908BelgiansHistoryHegemonyHistoryEthnological museums and collections325.3493096751Roberts Allen F.1945-1573260MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779366603321A dance of assassins3848925UNINA