Dance of Assassins Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

Name: Dance of Assassins Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo
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ISBN: 9780253007506

ISBN-10: 025300750X

ISBN-13: 9780253007506

Edition: 2012

Authors: Allen F. Roberts

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In the 1880s in the Congo, a Lubanda chief and slave trader named Lusinga was beheaded and his skull carried back to Belgium by Émile Storms, a disgruntled supporter of the brutal ruler King Leopold II. Today, the skull and a magnificent ancestral statue are housed in the Royal Museum of Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts tells the story of this grisly colonial encounter and its far-off repercussions. It is a tale of profound misunderstandings, bizarre behavior, theft, and the idiosyncrasies displayed by people caught up in the moment when European powers were establishing hegemony in Africa.

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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 ï¿½o on the Chaussï¿½e d'Ixelles



Lusinga's Lasting Laughs



Composing Decomposition



Defiances of the Dead



Some Background on Our Protagonists



A Note on Illustrations


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index