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

William Lancaster; Fidelity Lancaster

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Honour Is in Contentment

Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) and Some Neighbouring Regions

William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster

Volume N.F. 25 in the series Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223408

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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.

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

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
1 Social matters: social infrastructure, premises and practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Sea people, ahl al-bahr, and how they lived Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3 Livelihoods and living on the coastal plains or sayh, and the sands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
4 Ru'us al-Jibal mountains; livelihoods and living Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
5 The western Hajar mountains; livelihoods and living Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
6 Distribution, trade, investment, credit and debt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
7 Ruling and Rulers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
8 'What happened to turn our world upside down?' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
9 Back to History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	466
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	581
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 607
Illustrations
- Other: 23 Taf./plates
Keywords: Cultural Anthropology; Arab Tribes; UAE; Oman; Economics

eBook

Published: July 1, 2011
ISBN: 9783110223408

Hardcover

Published: June 16, 2011
ISBN: 9783110223392