Robert Sutherland Rattray

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

He was one of the first who wrote about Owari and Ashanti Gold weights.

Writings

  • Some folk - lore stories and songs in Chinyanja. - London, 1907
  • Hausa folk - lore, customs, proverbs, etc. -
  • 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)
  • Ashanti. In 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. In 1929.
  • The tribes of the Ashanti hinterland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932 -

Publications on Rattray

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

Name Variants

Robert S. Rattray, Robert Sutherland Rattray, RS Rattray

Swell

  • Africanist
  • Anthropologist
  • Ethnologist
  • Briton
  • Born in 1881
  • Died in 1938
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