TY - BOOK AU - Beurden,Sarah Van. TI - Authentically African: arts and the transnational politics of Congolese culture T2 - New African histories SN - 9780821421901 (hc : alk. paper) PY - 2015/// CY - Athens, Ohio PB - Ohio University Press KW - Institut des musées nationaux du Zaïre KW - History KW - Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale KW - Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) KW - Political aspects KW - Appreciation KW - Belgium KW - KUL KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Art, Habitat, Material Culture & recreation KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Ethnography: Africa N1 - Introduction. Congolese history and the politics of culture -- The value of culture : Congolese art and Belgian colonialism -- Guardians of heritage : a politique esthétique and the museum as a "laboratory of native policy" -- The art of (re)possession : heritage and the cultural politics of Congo's decolonization -- Mobutu's museum : authenticity and guardianship -- Civilizing citizens? : Museums as brokers of postcolonial Zairian modernity -- Belgian patrimony, Zairian treasure, and American heritage : the transnational politics of Congolese art -- Conclusion. Colonial and postcolonial legacies ER -