Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity (Hardbound - 2004)
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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.
ISBN13 | 9780415944601 |
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Product Name | Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity (Hardbound - 2004) |
Price | ₹13,572.00 |
Original Price | GBP 130.00 |
Author | Brenda Chalfin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Publication Year | 2004 |
Subject | Politics and Current Affairs |
Binding | Hardbound |
Language | English |
Pages | 320 |
Weight | 0.631000 |
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