Allen F Roberts

A Dance of Assassins

Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

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Produktbeschreibung

Allen F. Roberts is Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author (with Mary Nooter Roberts) of A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal, which was awarded the Herskovits Prize.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780253007506
• ISBN-10: 025300750X
• Artikelnr.: 35331891

Autorenporträt

Allen F. Roberts

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The "Emperor" Strikes Back
1. Invitation to a Beheading
2. A Conflict of Memories
3. Histories Made by Bodies
4. Tropical Gothic
5. Storms the Headhunter
Part II. Remembering the Dismembered
6. The Rise of a Colonial Macabre
7. Art Évo on the Chaussée d'Ixelles
8. Lusinga's Lasting Laughs
9. Composing Decomposition
10. Defiances of the Dead
Appendix A: Some Background on Our Protagonists
Appendix B: A Note on Illustrations
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index