Robert Sutherland Rattray
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Robert Sutherland Rattray (1881-1938, "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]
Publications about Rattray
- "Government Anthropologist": a life of R.S. Rattray by Noel Machin [2]
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].
