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200 12$aA dance of assassins $eperforming early colonial hegemony in the Congo /$fAllen F. Roberts
205   $a1st ed.
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.
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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
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606   $aHegemony$zCongo (Democratic Republic)$xHistory$y19th century
606   $aEthnological museums and collections$zBelgium
607   $aCongo (Democratic Republic)$xColonization
607   $aCongo (Democratic Republic)$xHistory$yTo 1908
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615  0$aHegemony$xHistory
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700   $aRoberts$b Allen F.$f1945-$01697515
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