Robert Sutherland Rattray
| Robert Sutherland Rattray | |||||
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| Born | 1881 | ||||
| Died | 1938 | ||||
| Residence |
Roseville, Gatehouse, NB; HMC, Accra, Gold Coast [1907] Roseville, Gatehouse, NB; District Supervisor, Kratchi, Ashanti [1909] 101 Piccadilly, W.; Asst District Commissioner, Ashanti [1913] 101 Piccadilly, W.; Political Officer, Misahohe, Togoland, via Lome, West Africa [1915] | ||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||
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RAI Council 1931-32 Member
RAI Council 1932-33 Member
RAI Council 1933-34 Member
RAI Council 1936-37 Member
RAI Council 1937-38 Member
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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
Rattray was born in India of Scottish parents. In 1906 he joined the Gold Coast Customs Service. In 1911 he became the assistant District Commissioner at Ejura. Learning local languages, he was appointed head of the Anthropological Department of Asante in 1921. He retired in 1930. He was killed while flying a glider in 1938
Publications
External Publications
· 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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