William Lancaster

Biographic Data

ID339080
NAMEWilliam Lancaster
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMELancaster
SIGNATURELANCASTER W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Aberdeen
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS70
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX4

  • Some relations between “tribes” and “territory” in the Arabian Peninsula in the recent past

    William Lancaster, Fidelity LancasterARTICLESemitica et Classica2020

    Arab tribes are not corporate, solidary or legal bodies, but aggregations of sets of ordered names, whose members are autonomous individuals living in a moral balance where jural and political action is vested in the person. Each manages his own affairs, lives from his resources, and shares moral premises. Geographic spaces are described by individuals who construct landscapes through observation, association, use and development. Relations with …

  • Waters As Creative Forces For Social Relations In Ras Al-Khaimah Emirate

    William Lancaster, Fidelity LancasterARTICLEJournal des anthropologues2013

    The paper uses data collected between 1997 and 2005 during the compilation of an archive on « Life before Oil » in RAK Emirate.Waters were seen as a driving force in the creation of landscapes and social practices. No environment is considered to provide livelihoods and profits of itself, but only through enhancements of natural waters. Through observations, experience and work, some waters permit livelihoods and profits and so create sets of pol…

  • Honour is in Contentment

    William Lancaster, Fidelity LancasterBOOKHonour is in contentment2011

    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, an…

  • A discussion of rock carvings in Ra’s al Khaimah Emirate, UAE, and Musandam province, Sultanate of Oman, using local considerations

    Open AccessWilliam Lancaster, Fidelity LancasterARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy2011Cited by: 2References: 2

    Conversations about various examples of rock carvings with interested local tribespeople across the study region revealed information about the different loci of carvings; subject matter and techniques; and the identities of possible carvers. It was possible to place sorts of rock carvings in specific cultural contexts and in long‐standing traditions across the peninsula. Rock carvers, in most cases, were either immature tribal members or male ad…

  • Pottery makers and pottery users

    Open AccessWilliam Lancaster, Fidelity LancasterARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy2010Cited by: 5References: 2

    The authors present the results of ethnographic research undertaken between 1987 and 2004 in the sultanate of Oman and the emirate of Ras al‐Khaimah on pottery manufacture and usage. Drawing on a number of different informants in both areas, they illustrate the many different types of vessels in use, discussing aspects of production, utility and exchange

  • Harness and trappings

    J H Crouwel, Mary Aiken Littauer et al.CHAPTER2003

  • People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East

    Open AccessWilliam Lancaster, Fidelity LancasterBOOKPeople, land and water in the…1999

    Aims and arguments methods of working framework to social practice environments, landscapes and nature water land use the practices of production systems using land as a primary resource buildings and other structures productivity, distribution and consumption integration into modernity

  • Mahafir

    Open AccessClive T Agnew, Ewan W Anderson et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal1995Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Graves and funerary monuments of the Ahl al‐Ǧabal, Jordan

    Open AccessWilliam Lancaster, Fidelity LancasterARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy1993Cited by: 4

  • Transitions Between Cultivation and Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa [and Comments and Reply]

    R Mace, David M Anderson et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1993Cited by: 23

  • Tribal formations in the Arabian Peninsula

    Open AccessWilliam Lancaster, Fidelity LancasterARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy1992Cited by: 2References: 1

  • The Burqu'/Ruweishid Project

    Alison Betts, S W Helms et al.ARTICLELevant1990

  • Records of Social and Economic History: New Series, Vol. 7: The Correspondence of Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven, 1693–1698: A Provincial Community in Wartime

    second baronet Sir John Lowther, John Sir Lowther et al.BOOKThe correspondence of Sir John…1983

    Contains, principally, the letters of William Gilpin and John Gale to Sir John Lowther.

  • The Rwala Bedouin Today

    Emanuel Marx, William LancasterARTICLEMan1983Cited by: 33