Abstract Taking the articles published during 2000 to 2009 in Anthropology and Education Quarterly as object to analyze these articles’ research themes and objects. We found that in terms of research themes, Anthropology and Education Quarterly attaches important to the Monolingual bilingual education, issues of identification, social exclusion and cultural conflict as well as conflict between modernity and tradition. As for research object, Anthropology and Education Quarterly pays great attention to the cultural differentce and the mainstream culture research. It also pays attention to the educational status of the other countries, highlights the international perspective of Educational Anthropology. Therefore China's Educational Anthropology should expand research field, pay attention to the domestic mainstream culture research, expand study area, make the educational ethnography overseas, meanwhile should strengthen the self-construction of Educational Anthropology, and deepen the basic theoretic study.