Robert Sutherland Rattray

Robert Sutherland Rattray (* 5. September 1881 in Bengalen; † 14. Mai 1938 in Farmoor, Oxfordshire) („Captain R. S. Rattray“) war ein britischer Afrikanist und Aschanti-Forscher.

Er war einer der ersten, die über Owari und über Aschanti-Goldgewichte schrieben^[1].

Werke (Auswahl)

• Some folk-lore stories and songs in Chinyanja. - London, 1907
• Hausa folk-lore, customs, proverbs, etc. - [1913]-
• 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. 1923.
• Religion and Art in Ashanti, 1927.
• Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales. Collected and translated by … R. S. Rattray … and illustrated by Africans of the Gold Coast Colony. Akan & Eng. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1930.
• Ashanti Law and Constitution. 1929.
• The tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932-

Publikationen über Rattray

• "Government Anthropologist": a life of R.S. Rattray by Noel Machin [1]

Namensvarianten

Robert S. Rattray, Robert Sutherland Rattray, R. S. Rattray

Quellen

1. ↑ rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/african/ashanti/history.html

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