| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction West African Shea From Indigenous Commodity to Postindustrial Luxury; The Setting; Making Butter Indigenous Patterns of Commoditization in Northern Ghana; Shea and the Colonial State Commodity Rule in Northern Ghana; Market Reform and Economic Citizenship in Northern Ghana Promoting and Politicizing Shea in the Wake of Liberalization; Chocolate Wars and Cosmetic Contests Shea as a New Global Commodity; Remaking Markets and Shape-Shifting States Privatizing Shea in Northern Ghana. |
| Summary |
This ethnographic study traces shea from a pre- to post-industrial commodity to provide a deeper understanding of emerging trends in tropical commoditization, cosmopolitan consumption, global economic restructuring and rural livelihoods. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shea butter industry -- Ghana.
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Shea butter industry. |
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Ghana. |
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Shea butter industry -- Africa, West.
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West Africa. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chalfin, Brenda. Shea butter republic. New York : Routledge, 2004 0415944600 0415944619 (DLC) 2003014613 (OCoLC)52520120 |
| ISBN |
0203496531 (electronic book) |
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9780203496534 (electronic book) |
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0203576519 (Adobe eReader format) |
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9780203576519 (Adobe eReader format) |
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0415944600 (hardcover) |
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9780415944601 (hardcover) |
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0415944619 (paperback) |
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9780415944618 (paperback) |
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9786610048366 |
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6610048363 |
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