RAI Journals

The Royal Anthropological Institute is the world’s longest established anthropological organisation with a global membership. Since 1843, it has been at the forefront of new developments in anthropology and new means of communicating them to a broad audience. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biological, evolutionary, social, cultural and medical anthropology, as well as sub-specialisms within these, and interests shared with neighbouring disciplines such as human genetics, archaeology and linguistics. It seeks to combine a distinguished tradition of scholarship with up-to-the-minute services to anthropology and to all anthropologists, including students. It has a particular commitment to promoting the public understanding of anthropology, as well as the contribution anthropology can make to public affairs and social issues. 
The RAI publishes the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Anthropology Today.  
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute has attracted and inspired some of the world's great thinkers. International in scope, it presents accessible papers aimed at a broad anthropological readership. The Journal provides an important forum for 'anthropology as a whole', embracing social anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and the study of material culture. It is acclaimed for its extensive book review section. The Special Issue appears annually, is guest-edited or single-authored, and addresses different themes in anthropology from year to year.
Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology. It is committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine and development; as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines.