Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity - Couverture souple

Chalfin, Brenda

 
9780415944618: Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity

Synopsis

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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Brenda Chalfin

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9780415944601: Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity

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ISBN 10 :  0415944600 ISBN 13 :  9780415944601
Editeur : Routledge, 2004
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