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Shea Butter Republic

By Brenda Chalfin

Shea Butter Republic Law

Shea Butter Republic

By Brenda Chalfin

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
2004-01-01
Publication Date:
2004-01-23
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415944600
ISBN13:
9780415944601
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
666 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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