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

Honour Is in Contentment : : Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) and Some Neighbouring Regions / / William Lancaster, Fidelity Lancaster.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Lancaster, William,
Lancaster, Fidelity,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients : Beihefte zur Zeitschrift “Der Islam” , N.F. 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (607 p.) :; 23 Taf./plates
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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