LEADER 03026nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910779366603321 005 20211115223130.0 010 $a1-283-86994-2 010 $a0-253-00759-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707540 035 $a(EBL)1100792 035 $a(OCoLC)824654927 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000826799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11464290 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000826799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10826623 035 $a(PQKB)10212903 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25577 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1100792 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10634615 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL418244 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1100792 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707540 100 $a20120727d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA dance of assassins$b[electronic resource] $eperforming early colonial hegemony in the Congo /$fAllen F. Roberts 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 225 0$aAfrican expressive cultures 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00750-X 311 $a0-253-00743-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe "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 e?vo on the Chausse?e d'Ixelles -- Lusinga's lasting laughs -- Composing decomposition -- Defiances of the dead. 330 $aA Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880's. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace ""a white line across the Dark Continent"" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treat 410 0$aAfrican expressive cultures. 606 $aBelgians$zCongo (Democratic Republic)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHegemony$zCongo (Democratic Republic)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEthnological museums and collections$zBelgium 607 $aCongo (Democratic Republic)$xColonization 607 $aCongo (Democratic Republic)$xHistory$yTo 1908 615 0$aBelgians$xHistory 615 0$aHegemony$xHistory 615 0$aEthnological museums and collections 676 $a325.3493096751 700 $aRoberts$b Allen F.$f1945-$01573260 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779366603321 996 $aA dance of assassins$93848925 997 $aUNINA