Robert Sutherland Rattray

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Robert Sutherland Rattray (born September 5, 1881 in Bengal , † May 14, 1938 in Farmoor , Oxfordshire ) ("Captain RS Rattray") was a British Africanist and Ashanti researcher.

He was one of the first to write about Owari and Ashanti gold weights .

Fonts

  • Some folk-lore stories and songs in Chinyanja. London, 1907
  • Hausa folk-lore, customs, proverbs, etc. [1913]
  • Ashanti proverbs: the primitive ethics of a savage people. Translated from the original with grammatical and anthropological notes, by R. Sutherland Rattray; with a preface by Sir Hugh Clifford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916 (Repr. 1969) Digitized
  • Ashanti. 1923.
  • Religion and Art in Ashanti, 1927.
  • Akan-Ashanti Folk Tales. Collected and translated by… RS Rattray… and illustrated by Africans of the Gold Coast Colony. Akan & Eng. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1930.
  • Ashanti Law and Constitution. 1929.
  • The Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/african/ashanti/history.html

literature

  • "Government Anthropologist": a life of RS Rattray by Noel Machin [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Rattray, Robert Sutherland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rattray, Robert S .; Rattray, RS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bengal
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1938
Place of death Farmoor , Oxfordshire