Robert Sutherland Rattray

Robert Sutherland Rattray

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. [http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/african/ashanti/history.html]

Publications about Rattray

* "Government Anthropologist": a life of R.S. Rattray" by Noel Machin [http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Machin/]

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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