{"product_id":"shea-butter-republic-state-power-global-markets-and-the-making-of-an-indigenous-commodity-0415944600","title":"Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0415944600\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chalfin, Brenda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShea 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51931021607200,"sku":"NEW0415944600","price":285.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/shea-butter-republic-state-power-global-markets-and-the-making-of-an-indigenous-commodity-0415944600","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}