About the Journal

The International Journal of Anthropology (JAnth) () is a peer-reviewed journal published through the JDONS scholarly portfolio. The journal is dedicated to advancing critical and original research in anthropology, with particular attention to human cultures, societies, biological variation, material practices, languages, belief systems, and human development. It provides an international forum for examining how scholarship in this field develops knowledge, informs professional and public conversations, and responds to emerging questions.

Committed to intellectual rigor, methodological diversity, and global scholarly dialogue, the Journal of Anthropology encourages research that crosses disciplinary boundaries, tests established assumptions, and brings diverse intellectual traditions into productive conversation. The journal seeks to cultivate innovative scholarship that clarifies major questions in anthropology, strengthens methodological exchange, and contributes to understanding contemporary conditions as well as future possibilities.

, the JDONS publishes this journal as provides a global scholarly forum for research in the field. It fosters international collaboration among scholars, researchers, professionals, policymakers, educators, and independent investigators and supports rigorous peer exchange across disciplinary, geographic, institutional, and methodological boundaries.

The scope of JAnth extends across human cultures, societies, biological variation, material practices, languages, belief systems, and human development. Research may engage theoretical, empirical, comparative, historical, computational, experimental, interpretive, applied, or practice-based approaches, as appropriate to the subject. The journal welcomes scholarship that places specialized research within broader cultural, social, scientific, technological, environmental, institutional, or policy contexts and encourages meaningful connections with adjacent fields.

·         Cultural Anthropology

·         Social Anthropology

·         Biological Anthropology

·         Archaeological Anthropology

·         Linguistic Anthropology

·         Medical Anthropology

·         Economic Anthropology

·         Political Anthropology

·         Material Culture

·         Indigenous Peoples and Knowledge

·         Digital Anthropology

·         Human Evolution

The journal welcomes original research articles, theoretical essays, comparative studies, methodological contributions, policy analyses, review essays, and critical book reviews. Contributions are encouraged to engage one or more of the journal's stated foci while remaining open to emerging subjects, innovative methodologies, comparative perspectives, and questions not yet adequately represented in the literature. JAnth welcomes work from established disciplines as well as emerging cross-disciplinary fields.

The journal encourages comparative, transdisciplinary, and globally inclusive scholarship that critically examines the major intellectual, practical, and societal questions associated with anthropology. Particular emphasis is placed on research that foregrounds diverse perspectives, including Indigenous, Global South, decolonial, comparative, community-based, and underrepresented knowledge traditions where relevant, while encouraging meaningful engagement across academic disciplines, geographic contexts, and forms of expertise.