RAI Publications 

The Institute's core activity is publishing international journals.

The Institute's Journals

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is our quarterly, with articles on all aspects of anthropology, as well as correspondence and a section of book reviews.

Anthropology Today is a lively bimonthly magazine aimed at a wider readership is published every two months, with a special emphasis on topical issues, films, applied anthropology, controversy, etc. 

The best way of keeping in touch with the Institute's activities is by subscribing to Anthropology Today, which is available at a most reasonable price for individuals.

Anthropology Today also brings you AnthCal, the Anthropology Today Calendar of Events, and Vacancy Link, a pointer at websites where anthropology vacancies may be found.

Anthropological Index Online (AIO) is a regionally arranged subject and author index to periodicals received. It is edited from the Museum of Mankind Library. Photocopies of articles indexed are available. It has been developed with the generous support of the William Buller Fagg Charitable Trust and with the help of the UKC Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC).

Other publications

As well as journals, the Institute publishes an Occasional Papers Series and Discovering Anthropology, our resource guide for teachers and students.

Our Film Catalogue Vol. II is now being made available on-line along with other ethnographic film resources. Forty carefully selected films and videos for sale for educational purposes are to be found in our Video Sales List.

Electronic access to RAI journals for individual Fellows, Members and Student Associates

Through a special arrangement with JSTOR and Blackwell Publishing, all RAI Fellows now have online access to the back issues of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Anthropology Today and their predecessors. Fellows can browse and conduct full text searches of all articles and book reviews up until but excluding the most recent five years for both journals. For more information about JSTOR, click here. To access the RAI journals archived in JSTOR, go to http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/RAI and follow the instructions for registration.

Fellows and Student Associates also have full-text electronic access to both journals from the 2000 volume year onwards, through the Blackwell Synergy site. Members have access to Anthropology Today. To access the journals through Synergy, go to http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.