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Shea Butter Republic
- State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity
Engelsk
Bogcover for Shea Butter Republic af Brenda Chalfin, 9780415944618
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
315
ISBN-13:
9780415944618
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415944619
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
23 jan 2004
Størrelse i cm:
22,7 x 15,4 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
23 jan 2004
Forfatter(e):

Shea Butter Republic

- State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity
Engelsk
Paperback 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.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
315
ISBN-13:
9780415944618
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415944619
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
23 jan 2004
Størrelse i cm:
22,7 x 15,4 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
23 jan 2004
Forfatter(e):
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