Introduction: West African Shea: From Indigenous Commodity to Postindustrial Luxury -- Ch. 1. Making Butter: Indigenous Patterns of Commoditization in Northern Ghana -- Ch. 2. Shea and the Colonial State: Commodity Rule in Northern Ghana -- Ch. 3. Market Reform and Economic Citizenship in Northern Ghana: Promoting and Politicizing Shea in the Wake of Liberalization -- Ch. 4. Chocolate Wars and Cosmetic Contests: Shea as a New Global Commodity -- Ch. 5. Remaking Markets and Shape-Shifting States: Privatizing Shea in Northern Ghana -- Ch. 6. Capital and Cooperation: Rural Women and Market Restructuring -- Conclusion: Reconstructing Tropical Commodity Regimes: Cosmopolitan Consumption, Postcolonial States, Multinational Capital, and Rural Livelihoods at the Turn of the Millennium
