Description: Shea Butter Republic : State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity, Hardcover by Chalfin, Brenda, ISBN 0415944600, ISBN-13 9780415944601, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Shea butter (butyrospermin parkii) has been produced and sold by rural West African women and circulated on the world market as a raw material for more than a century. Shea butter has been used for cooking, making soap and candles, leatherworking, dying, as a medical and beauty aid, and most significantly, as a substitute for cocoa butter in chocolate production. Now sold in exclusive shops as a high-priced cosmetic and medicinal product, it caters to the desire of cosmopolitan customers worldwide for luxury and exotic self-indulgence. This ethnographic study traces shea from a pre- to post-industrial commodity to provide a deeper understanding of emerging trends in tropical commoditization, consumption, global economic restructuring and rural livelihoods. Also inlcludes seven maps.
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Book Title: Shea Butter Republic : State Power, Global Markets, and the Makin
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Shea Butter Republic : State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Sociology / General, Specific Ingredients / Dairy, Economic Conditions, Anthropology / General
Publication Year: 2004
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Author: Brenda Chalfin
Subject Area: Cooking, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Hardcover
