Robert Sutherland Rattray
Robert Sutherland Rattray, CBE, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881, India – 1938) was an early Africanist and student of the Ashanti. He was one of the early writers on Oware, and on Ashanti gold weights.[1]
Life
Rattray was born in India of Scottish parents. In 1906 he joined the Gold Coast Customs Service. In 1911 he became the assistant Distrct Commissioner at Ejura. Learning local languages, in 1921 he was appointed head of the Anthropological Department of Asante. He retired in 1930. He was killed while flying a glider in 1938.[2]
Works
- 'Vernon Blake', The Aesthetic of Ashanti.
- Ashanti proverbs: the primitive ethics of a savage people: translated from the original with grammatical and anthropological notes, 1916 (repub. 1969). With a preface by Sir Hugh Clifford.
- Ashanti, 1923.
- (ed.) Religion and art in Ashanti, Oxford University Press, 1927
- Ashanti Law and Constitution, 1929.
- Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales. Collected and translated by ... R. S. Rattray ... and illustrated by Africans of the Gold Coast Colony, 1930
- The Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2 vols., 1932
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