book chapter
Ashanti
Clarendon Press • Oxford, England • Published In 1923 • Pages:
By: Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Captain Rattray's studies of the Ashanti are considered the best sources of ethnographic information on this Gold Coast nation. This document is a preliminary survey of the group published after Rattray had been in the field for one year. Rattray was head of the British government's Anthropology Department in Ashanti, West Africa. This document covers kinship organization and pertinent ritual as well as religious beliefs and practices related to spirits and ancestors. Rattray discusses the Ashanti land tenure system and he discusses the historical development of the Ashanti nation. The symbol of Ashanti nationality, the Golden Stool, is also analyzed. Information on neolithic instruments, goldsmiths and the manufacture of weights, as well as some anthropometric data, can also be found in this volume.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Real property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Akan
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jean U. Mensch ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1921
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ashanti; Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Capt. R. S. Rattray, M.B.E.
- Index and map are not included
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)