Nelson H. Graburn

Nelson H. Graburn (1936-2025) was educated in Natural Sciences and Anthropology at Cambridge, McGill, and the University of Chicago. He carried out ethnographic research with the Inuit of Northern Canada and in Japan. He taught at the Unversity of California, Berkeley, from 1964, with visiting appointments at the National Museum of Civilization, Ottawa; Le Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques, Aix-en-Provence; the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka; and the Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu National University, Fukuoka. His recent research focused on the study of art, tourism, museums, and the expression and representation of identity.