Book
Ashanti proverbs: (the primitive ethics of a savage people)
At the Clarendon Press • Oxford, England • Published In 1916 • Pages:
By: Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland).
Abstract
This collection of proverbs was translated by Rattray from the collection made by the Reverend J. G. Christaller, published in the vernacular by the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society in 1879. Rattray has organized the proverbs into fifteen groups, according to whether the subject matter concerns the Supreme Being (chapter 1), fauna (chapters 2-6), war (chapter 7), social types (chapter 8-10), human estates and virtues (chapters 11-12), natural Phenomena (chapter 13), and general precepts and maxims in the final section (chapter 14). Rattray has supplied numerous linguistic notes, chiefly etymological. Although he gives occasional sociological exegeses to illumine the context and the meaning of the proverbs, this is the exception rather than the rule.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Robert Plant Armstrong ; 1954
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- nineteenth century
- Coverage Place
- Ashanti; Ghana
- Notes
- by R. Sutherland Rattray, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I.
- Translated from the original with grammatical and anthropological notes by R. Sutherland Rattray, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I.
- LCSH
- Akan (African people)