British social anthropologist often associated with the structural-functionalist school of anthropology (though there are some differences between his position and that of either Malinowski or Radcliffe-Brown);His pioneering ethnographies did have a great importance and influence on the development of the structural-functionalist tradition/phase in social anthropology (especially in the areas of kinship, lineage, and the study of religion);
Encyclopedia Entries
The Nuer (1940)
Kinship and Marriage among the Nuer (1951)
Essays in Social Anthropology (1962)
Theories of Primitive Religion (1965)
The Azande (1971)