A dance of assassins [electronic resource] : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo / Allen F. Roberts.
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TextSeries: African expressive culturesPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.Description: x, 311 p. : ill., map, portSubject(s): - Storms, �Emile 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
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Colonization
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- To 1908
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- DT654 .R63 2013eb
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 �evo on the Chauss�ee d'Ixelles -- Lusinga's lasting laughs -- Composing decomposition -- Defiances of the dead.
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