Honour is in Contentment: Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah
William Lancaster, "Honour is in Contentment: Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah"
D e G.ru.yt.er | ISBN: 3110223392 | 2011 | PDF | 625 pages | 3,82 MB
D e G.ru.yt.er | ISBN: 3110223392 | 2011 | PDF | 625 pages | 3,82 MB
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.