From 65438 to 0905, Brown served as the secretary of the Anthropology Group of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and went to South Africa. The following year, I won a scholarship from the Anthony Wilkin Foundation of Cambridge University, and I was able to go to andaman islands for a field trip under the guidance of Rivers. After two years of investigation, he returned to England on 1908 and published a preliminary report, which won him a research grant from Trinity College. In the next two years, he worked as a lecturer in ethnology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and taught comparative sociology at Cambridge University.
19 10, Brown received the research grant from Antuoni Wilkin Fund again and went to Western Australia for field investigation. Only three members accompanied him this time, and two of them left the team halfway. Although he was short of manpower, Brown's local speech won him some financial support, which enabled him to continue his research. During the two-year investigation, Brown visited Si Tong and bernier Island, and finally visited the indigenous tribes along the gascoyne River. During this period, he rearranged the kinship system of Australian aborigines, clarified many mistakes in the past, and put forward a set of methods to "save" the culture that is about to be lost, that is, the understanding of structure and form, which also affected his future theoretical development.
19 13, Brown temporarily returned to England to reunite with his new wife and gave a series of speeches at Birmingham University. 19 14 He returned to Australia, served as the principal of a middle school in Sydney, and conducted research in southeast Australia. However, with the outbreak of World War I, research also encountered obstacles.