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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 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.Their lively descriptions and explanations of life before oil portrayed tribal societies whose relationships were moral rather than political and were between jurally equal persons. All lived from their own resources; 'wealth' was material self-sufficiency; 'riches' the richness of social relationships. Political arenas were decentralised and underpinned by common cultural and moral values.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.

Ethnology -- United Arab Emirates. --- Human geography -- United Arab Emirates. --- Petroleum industry and trade -- United Arab Emirates. --- Human geography --- Ethnology --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Raʼs al-Khaymah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions --- History --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Ras-ool-Kheimah (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Ras al Khaima (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Jasimi Shaikhdom of Ras al-Khaimah (United Arab Emirates) --- Ras al Khaimah (United Arab Emirates) --- State of Ras al Khaima (United Arab Emirates) --- Ran al Khaima (United Arab Emirates : Emirate) --- Energy industries --- Oil industries --- Human beings --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Cultural Anthropology, Arab Tribes, UAE, Oman, Economics.