TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lancaster,William
AU  - Lancaster,Fidelity
TI  - Honour Is in Contentment: Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) and Some Neighbouring Regions 
T2  - Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients : Beihefte zur Zeitschrift “Der Islam” ,
SN  - 9783110223392
AV  - GF696.U5 L36 2011
U1  - 953.57 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Ethnology -- United Arab Emirates -- Ra?s al-Khaymah (Emirate)
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - United Arab Emirates
KW  - Raʼs al-Khaymah (Emirate)
KW  - Human geography -- United Arab Emirates -- Ra?s al-Khaymah (Emirate)
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade -- United Arab Emirates -- Ra?s al-Khaymah (Emirate)
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Ra?s al-Khaymah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Ra?s al-Khaymah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
KW  - Ra?s al-Khaymah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) -- Social life and customs
KW  - 20. Jahrhundert
KW  - Arabische Stämme
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Vereinigung arabischer Emirate
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cultural Anthropology, Arab Tribes, UAE, Oman, Economics
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; 1 Social matters: social infrastructure, premises and practice --; 2 Sea people, ahl al-bahr, and how they lived --; 3 Livelihoods and living on the coastal plains or sayh, and the sands --; 4 Ru'us al-Jibal mountains; livelihoods and living --; 5 The western Hajar mountains; livelihoods and living --; 6 Distribution, trade, investment, credit and debt --; 7 Ruling and Rulers --; 8 'What happened to turn our world upside down?' --; 9 Back to History --; Bibliography --; Index --; List of Figures --; Plates; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223408
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110223408
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110223408/original
ER  -