Honour Is in Contentment | Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) and Some Neighbouring Regions

Fidelity Lancaster (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 3110223392 / ISBN 13: 9783110223392

Published by De Gruyter, 2011

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Honour Is in Contentment | Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) and Some Neighbouring Regions | Fidelity Lancaster (u. a.) | Buch | ISSN | XIV | Englisch | 2011 | De Gruyter | EAN 9783110223392 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Honour Is in Contentment | Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) and Some Neighbouring Regions
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110223392
• ISBN 13: 9783110223392
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 39D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 39 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1069 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bücher

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Synopsis

Based on interviews and field research, the authors explore the sets of ideas Arab tribespeople from Ras Al-Khaimah had about tribe and community; social and economic networks, and jural contracts for livelihoods and profits; their uses of their environments; the moral relations of credit, debt and labour; ruling; economic and political transformations; and ideas of regional history where conflicts were regarded as disputes over sets of ideas, and informal accounts of tribal and local histories.
Their lively descriptions and explanations of life before oil portrayed tribal societies whose relationships were moral rather than political and were between jurally equal persons. All lived from their own resources; 'wealth' was material self-sufficiency; 'riches' the richness of social relationships. Political arenas were decentralised and underpinned by common cultural and moral values.
Published sources give a wider context to these ideas and events which show the great complexity and differing perspectives of 'life before oil' in the Gulf.

About the Author

William O. Lancaster and Fidelity C. Lancaster, Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK.