His early work with primitive societies was documented in his works The Andaman Islanders and The Social Organization of Australian Tribes.
He was a follower of Émile Durkheim and his idea of collective consciousness, which stated that scientific methods should be applied to the study of a society and its common values. He served as a professor at the University of Sydney and the University of Chicago before becoming the first professor of social anthropology at the University of Oxford. His early work with primitive societies was documented in his works The Andaman Islanders and The Social Organization of Australian Tribes. FTP, identify this British anthropologist most famous for his work with Australian Aborigines.
He was a follower of Émile Durkheim and his idea of collective consciousness, which stated that scientific methods should be applied to the study of a society and its common values.
A. R. {Radcliffe-Brown}