2020-24         Hannah Knox, Adam Reed, Thomas Yarrow, Chika Watanabe

2016-20          Elizabeth Hallam

2013-16          Matei Candea

2010-13          Matthew Engelke

2007-10          Simon Coleman

2004-07          Glenn Bowman

2001-04          Susan Bayly

1999-01          James Carrier

1994-98          Simon Joseph Harrison

1993-94          Hastings Donnan

1990-92          Tim Ingold

1987-89          Ruth Finnegan

1983-86          David Turton

1979-83          Marilyn Strathern

1978-79          Peter Loizos

1973-77          Peter Rivière

1970-73          Ioan Lewis

1966-70          Adrian Mayer

1956-66          George Wynn Brereton Huntingford

1953-56          Jack Carrick Trevor

1947-53          Meyer Fortes

1938-47          Ethel John Lindgren

1935-38          Roderick Urwick Sayce

1926-35          Hermann Justus Braunholtz

1921-26          Herbert Spencer Harrison

1871-1921   Editors of the journal were not named from 1871 to 1921, as responsibility for the content of the journal was with the Council of the (Royal) Anthropological Institute