After graduation Kuper did further field studies in Botswana, and Jamaica, and taught at Universities in Uganda, Britain, Holland, Sweden and the United States.
[8] In the early 1970s Kuper did fieldwork in Jamaica, on attachment to the National Planning Agency in the Office of the Prime Minister.
However his main ethnographic focus continued to be the societies of Southern Africa, on which he has published several books.
He has supervised many PhD students on Southern African ethnography, history of anthropology, family business, and kinship.
Instead, he was forcibly retired in late 2008, just after the census date for publications submitted to the Research Assessment Exercise had passed.