《当代人类学》是一本致力于人类研究的跨国期刊，涵盖了人类文化以及人类和其他灵长类物种的全方位人类学研究。该杂志在不同的分支领域发表论文，包括社会、文化和物理人类学、民族学和民族史、考古学和史前史、民俗学和语言学。
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.