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Honour Is in Contentment: Life Before Oil in Ras Al-Khaimah (Uae) and Some Neighbouring Regions
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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 andlabour; ruling; economic and political transformations; and ideas of regiona
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Hardcover, 621 pages
Published
June 16th 2011
by Walter de Gruyter
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