{"product_id":"shea-butter-republic-brenda-chalfin-9780415944618","title":"Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity","description":"Shea butter (\u003cem\u003ebutyrospermin parkii\u003c\/em\u003e) 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brenda Chalfin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415944619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415944618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.06w x 0.81d","brand":"Brenda Chalfin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48153020563711,"sku":"9780415944618","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b34d2afb-0611-43ff-93f0-b71e2ff88db4.jpg?v=1770780750","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shea-butter-republic-brenda-chalfin-9780415944618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}