Honour is in contentment life before oil in Ras al-Khaimah (UAE) and some neighbouring regions
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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Walter de Gruyter
2011
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| Series: | Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients.Beihefte zur Zeitschrift "der Islam",
Neue Folge, Band 25 |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients.Beihefte zur Zeitschrift "der Islam", |x 1862-1295 |v Neue Folge, Band 25 | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Social matters : infrastructure, premises & practices -- Sea people, Ahl al-Bahr : livelihoods and profits -- Coastal plains & sands : livelihoods & profits -- Mountain living : Ru'us al-Jibal -- Mountain living : western Hajar -- Distribution of produce & services -- Ruling and rulers -- What happened to turn our world upside-down? -- Back to history | |
| 520 | |a 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. 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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