《當代人類學》是一本致力于人類研究的跨國期刊，涵蓋了人類文化以及人類和其他靈長類物種的全方位人類學研究。該雜志在不同的分支領域發表論文，包括社會、文化和物理人類學、民族學和民族史、考古學和史前史、民俗學和語言學。

Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics.