"Government Anthropologist"

a life of R.S. Rattray


Noel Machin















Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
The University of Kent at Canterbury
1998
First published 1998


by CSAC Monographs
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
Eliot College, University of Kent at Canterbury CT2 7NS

© 1998 The Estate of Noel Machin

Contents


  Editorial Foreword

6

  Preface

8

  Chapter 1. Anglo-Indians:

1

  Chapter 2. Southern Africa:The Boer War and the 'Wild Ngoni'

21

  Chapter 3. The Gold Coast

33

  Chapter 4. Ashanti

47

  Chapter 5 Rattray's War

55

  Chapter 6. Government Anthropologist

69

  Chapter 7. The Golden Stool

84

  Chapter 8. Religion and Art in Ashanti

110

  Chapter 9. Ashanti Law and Constitution

137

  Chapter 10. 'My Last Tour'

179

  Chapter 11. An Old Coaster Comes Home

197



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