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).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Plant Armstrong ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- nineteenth century
- 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 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.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)