The Foundation founded Current Anthropology in 1961 and continues to sponsor its publication today. It is one of the leading international scholarly journals in the field, publishing articles, reports, interviews and book reviews as well as discussion and commentary.
The Wenner-Gren Foundation is the sponsor of Current Anthropology, an international journal of general anthropology. Since its inception in 1960, Current Anthropology has been the major scholarly periodical in anthropology addressed to a worldwide audience in all branches of the field.