Honour is in Contentment

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19903218
AutoresWilliam Lancaster, Fidelity Lancaster
Ano2011
Páginas607
Data de publicação2011-06-15
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoHonour is in contentment (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110223408
OpenAlexW4232001346
Open LibraryOL25074617M
ISBN9783110223408
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDLe0Ryxzh7cQC
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15

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

Archaeology · Contentment · Geography · Honour · Islamic Studies and History · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in MENA · 20th century · Ethnology · History · Human Geography · Lebensbedingungen · Middle east · Petroleum industry and trade · Raʼs al-Khaymah (Emirate) · Raʼs al-Khaymah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) · Social conditions · Social life and customs · Stammesgesellschaft · Traditionale Kultur · United arab emirates