Lancaster Honour Is in Contentment

Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) and Some Neighbouring Regions
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-022340-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 621 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: ISSN

Bestandteil von: eBook 2010 Gesamtpaket

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lancaster, F.C.

Lancaster, William

Lancaster, William O.

Lancaster, Fidelity

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Acknowledgements;12
3;Contents;14
4;1 Social matters: social infrastructure, premises and practice;16
4.1;Ownership, territory, and residence;41
4.2;Group identities and their references;50
4.3;“The poetics of dwelling”;51
5;2 Sea people, ahl al-bahr, and how they lived;60
5.1;Sea trading and carrying;61
5.2;Pearling;71
5.3;Fishing;75
5.4;Changes in coastlines;83
6;3 Livelihoods and living on the coastal plains or sayh, and the sands;114
6.1;Waters, soils, and livelihood options;114
6.2;Livelihoods and profits, ma'ash wa fa'ida, and living;117
7;4 Ru'us al-Jibal mountains; livelihoods and living;152
7.1;Waters, soils, environments;152
7.2;Livelihoods and living in the Ru'us al-Jibal;162
8;5 The western Hajar mountains; livelihoods and living;206
8.1;Waters, soils, and environments;206
8.2;Livelihoods and living in the western Hajar;224
9;6 Distribution, trade, investment, credit and debt;254
9.1;The second section describes the activities of traders;276
10;7 Ruling and Rulers;313
10.1;Local terms for persons fulfilling roles in aspects of ruling;319
10.2;Local descriptions of ruling in the past;326
10.3;Rationales of ruling;348
10.4;Changes from the discovery and development of oil;384
11;8 'What happened to turn our world upside down?';391
11.1;A brief economic history of the area;398
11.2;Changes in traditional sources of profits;425
11.3;Date growing areas inland from the coast;446
11.4;Sands;452
11.5;Ru'us al-Jibal;456
11.6;Western Hajar;463
11.7;The transformation through modernisation;473
12;9 Back to History;481
12.1;The Gulf coastal towns and places on the Shamailyya and Batinah coasts;486
12.2;Date garden areas of the Sirr;516
12.3;Sands;526
12.4;Ru'us al-Jibal history is presented as tribal history; Dhahuriyyin; Shihuh; and Habus;529
12.5;Western Hajar;544
13;Bibliography;574
14;Index;584
15;List of Figures;596
16;Plates;598

Über Autor(innen)

William O. Lancaster and Fidelity C. Lancaster, Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK.