Anthropology is a cross-cultural study of life, culture and society, dedicated to promoting human understanding, communication and cooperation. Today, with the trend of global integration, frequent economic and cultural contacts, frequent collisions and misunderstandings, expanding human desires and pressing environment, it is urgent to popularize and update anthropological knowledge in China and improve its teaching and research quality. No matter teaching or research, or the popularization or improvement of discipline theory, China Anthropology needs a batch of reliable translations as reference. In the history of western anthropology, a landmark work is Inquiry and Record of Anthropology. This field manual published in the sixth edition embodies the collective wisdom of several generations of anthropologists.