Getting Books Not Available at BU
There are several ways you can obtain books or articles that we do not own. These include:
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WorldCat Discovery. WorldCat Discovery allows current BU faculty, staff, and students to borrow books directly from other Boston Library Consortium libraries. Turnaround time is approximately three working days. (How to use WorldCat Discovery)
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Interlibrary Loan. Interlibrary Loan services allow current BU faculty, staff, and students to request books, articles, book chapters, and other materials that our ILL staff will obtain from other libraries. Books generally take 2-4 weeks to arrive; articles are generally delivered electronically within 1-2 days.
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ILL online request forms for all patrons except those affiliated with the Schools of Law and Medicine
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Law Library's interlibrary loan page for Law School affiliates
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Alumni Medical Library’s ILL form for Medical School affilliates
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For general inquires to the Interlibrary Loan office, please call (617) 353-3706 or email ILLMML@bu.edu.
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- BLC Cards. A Boston Library Consortium Card allows the bearer to borrow—in person—circulating material from a member library, just as you would from a BU library. Boston University faculty, staff, and students on the Charles River Campus may obtain a Consortium Card by filling out an application form. Medical Campus affiliates apply at the Alumni Medical Library.
Physical & Online Sources
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Selected Books
The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde by
The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde: Slavery, Language, and Ideology is an ethnographic study of language use and ideology in Cape Verde, from its early settlement as a center for slave trade, to the postcolonial present. The study is methodologically rich and innovative in that it weaves together historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data from different eras with sketches of contemporary life--a homicide trial, a scholarly meeting, a competition for a new national flag, a heterodox Catholic mass, an analysis of love letters, a priest's sermon, and a death in the neighborhood. In all these different contexts, Marcia Rego focuses on the role of Kriolu (the Cape Verdean Creole) and its relation to Portuguese--that is, on the way people live through speaking. The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde shows how, through the dialogic give-and-take of the two languages, Cape Verdeans wrestle with deep-seated colonial hierarchies, invent and rehearse new traditions, and articulate their identity as a sovereign, creole nation.
Location: DT411.22 .L38 1982ISBN: 9780739193778Publication Date: 2015-04-08
Race, Culture and Portuguese Colonialism in Cabo Verde by
This volume examines the exploitation of the faunal diversity during the Holocene in the Horn of Africa, especially in the arid plain of Gobaad in Djibouti and in the mountainous region of Wolayta in Ethiopia. For that purpose, the author has studied faunal collections (more than 70 000 remains and 34 species) from five archaeological sites occupied from the 5th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD. Both these regions offer very different natural environments, in which the presence of specialized societies of hunter-gatherers is evident. By integrating the findings of this research with data from the neighbouring countries, and by comparing them with all archaeological data, it appears that the diffusion of farming came from acculturation more than migration. French text.
Location: DT411.65 .L47 2007ISBN: 0915984660Publication Date: 1984-12-01
Transnational Archipelago by
The island nation of Cape Verde has given rise to a diaspora that spans the four continents of the Atlantic Ocean. Migration has been essential to the island since the birth of its nation. This volume makes a significant contribution to the study of international migration and transnationalism by exploring the Cape Verdean diaspora through its geographic diversity and with a broad thematic range. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
Location: DT401.6 .B67 2010ISBN: 9789048501885Publication Date: 2008-08-21
Find more more books / monographs about Cabo Verde.
Texts in Portuguese
Cabo Verde : origens de sua sociedade e do seu crioulo by
"Actas do Colóquio Internacional, Erlangen-Nürnberg, 23-25 de Setembro de 2004."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 9783823362364Publication Date: 2006História, a Guiné e as Ilhas de Cabo Verde by Portuguese. Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde history up until 1975. Part of the series: Libertação dos povos das colónias.
Location: Mugar Stacks DT613.75 .P35MPublication Date: 1974- Cabo Verde : notas atlânticas by
Description and travel in Cape Verde.
Location: Mugar Stacks DT671.C22 L68 1999ISBN: 9789721045842Publication Date: 1999
Cape Verdean Fiction & Short Stories
The Picador Book of African Stories by
From Egypt to South Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia, Stephen Gray introduces vital voices from the African continent and offers an insight into contemporary Africa in a series of stories that describe love, war, family and oppression.
From Cape Verde -- In the Court of King Dom Pedro / Teixeira de Sousa
ISBN: 9780330485401Publication Date: 2000-12-01- Fire by This study of contemporary lusophone literature in Africa introduces the work of Angola's Luandino Viera, Agostinho Neto, Geraldo Bessa Victor, and Mario Antonio; Cape Verde's Baltasar Lopes; and Mozambique's Luis Bernardo Honwana.ISBN: 9780914478515Publication Date: 1977-07-01
The Last Will and Testament of Senor Da Silva Araujo by
Everyone in Cape Verde knows Senor da Silva. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senor da Silva is the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never splurged--one good suit was good enough for him--and he never wandered from the straight and narrow. Or so everyone thought. But when Senor da Silva's 387-page Last Will and Testament is read aloud--a marathon task on a hot afternoon which exhausts reader after reader--there's eye-opening news, and not just for the smug nephew so certain of inheriting all Senor da Silva's property. With his will, Senor da Silva leaves a memoir that is a touching web of elaborate self-deceptions. He desired so ardently to prosper, to be taken seriously, to join (perhaps, if they'll have him) the exclusive Gremio country club, and, most of all, to be a good man. And yet, shady deals, twists of fate, an illegitimate child: such is the lot of poor, self-critical Senor da Silva. A bit like Calvino's Mr. Palomar in his attention to protocol and in his terror of life's passions; a bit like Calvino's Mr. Palomar in his attention to protocol and in his terror of life's passions; a bit like Svevo's Zeno (a little pompous, a little old-fashioned, and often hapless), Senor da Silva moves along a deliciously blurry line between farce and tragedy: a self-important buffoon becomes a fully human, even tragic, figure in the arc of this hilarious and touching novel - translated into Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and now, at last, English.
ISBN: 0811215652Publication Date: 2004-07-01
Online Resources for Finding Books
- Littérature Capverdienne: A la découverte d'une culture encore méconnue French website: ":Cape Verdean literature: Discovering a culture still unknown "
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