Cultural Anthropology (print ISSN 0886-7356; online ISSN 1548-1360) is the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Established in 1986, the journal publishes four issues per year and is widely abstracted and indexed.
Cultural Anthropology publishes field-expanding ethnographic writing grounded in historical and disciplinary debates, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. The editors also encourage authors to submit manuscripts that engage the history of cultural anthropology and related disciplines, provided that they speak to the broader thematics of area studies and ethnographic theory. In terms of methodologies, manuscripts concerning creative works, research design, and the anthropology of archives are also welcomed. The editors take an active role in developing content and seek to ensure its relevance and quality across the journal’s varied platforms.
Bridget Guarasci (co-editor-in-chief), Eleana Kim, Amelia Moore, Ryo Morimoto, and Sarah E. Vaughn (co-editor-in-chief) (2026–2030)
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Julia Elyachar, Joanne Nucho, AbdouMaliq Simone, Manuel Tironi, and Ather Zia (2022–2025)
Chris Nelson, Heather Paxson, and Brad Weiss (2018–2022)
Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and James Faubion (2014–2018)
Anne Allison and Charles Piot (2010–2014)
Kim Fortun and Mike Fortun (2006–2010)
Ann Anagnost (2002–2006)
Dan Segal (1996–2001)
Fred Myers (1992–1995)
George Marcus (1986–1991)
In 2014, Cultural Anthropology went open access, which means that all articles published since 2014 are freely available on the Cultural Anthropology website immediately upon publication. Articles published before 2014 are available at Wiley Online Library to members of the American Anthropological Association and institutional subscribers.
As of 2019, Cultural Anthropology is published using Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source software application developed and released by Public Knowledge Project (PKP).
This publication was subsidized in part by the MIT Programs in Digital Humanities.
Cultural Anthropology journal content is archived with Portico.
