Robert Sutherland Rattray

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Robert Sutherland Rattray ("Captain R.S.Rattray") was an early Africanist and student of the Ashanti.

He was one of the early writers on owari, and on Ashanti gold weights.[1]

[edit] Publications about Rattray

  • "Government Anthropologist": a life of R.S. Rattray by Noel Machin [2]

[edit] Rattray's own Publications (a selection)

  • The Aesthetic of Ashanti. / [by Vernon Blake.
  • Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales. Collected and translated by ... R. S. Rattray ... and illustrated by Africans of the Gold Coast Colony. Akan & Eng. / [by RATTRAY, Robert Sutherland]. 1930.
  • Ashanti. / By Capt. R.S. Rattray ... 1923.
  • Ashanti Law and Constitution. [With plates.] / [by RATTRAY, Robert Sutherland]. 1929.
  • 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. [1916, 1969]
  • Bennett, G.: Wari, in: Robert Rattray (Ed.), Religion and art in Ashanti, Oxford University Press, 1928 [pp. 148-159].


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