Ashanti
book chapter 1923 • Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland)

Akan • Africa > Western Africa
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...

Religion and art in Ashanti
book chapter 1927 • Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland)

Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This volume, the second of Captain Rattray's three ethnographic studies of the Ashanti, completes the general survey of religious beliefs begun in ‘Ashant’. Detailed data are presented on the form and importance of ancestor worship, spirits and gods,...

Ashanti law and constitution
book chapter 1929 • Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland)

Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This volume, the third of Rattray's three major studies of the Ashanti, traces the development of legal, political, and judicial institutions from their origin in the simple family group under a house-father to their present-day function in the terri...

Ashanti proverbs
Book 1916 • Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland)

Akan • Africa > Western Africa
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,...

Cross-cousin marriages
article 1925 • Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland) & Dudley Buxton, L. H.

Akan • Africa > Western Africa
Marriage customs and rules are analyzed in an attempt to answer the question...'why should a man (in the past at any rate) have been compelled to marry his mother's brother's daughter and/or his father's sister's darghter.' The tentative conclusion r...