Nelson Graburn

Nelson Graburn was educated in the classics and natural sciences at the King’s School, Canterbury, and he earned his BA in Natural Sciences and Social Anthropology at Cambridge (1958). He attended McGill (MA 1960) and University of Chicago (PhD 1963). After a Postdoc (Northwestern University) researching Inuit-Naskapi/Cree interethnic relations (1963-64), he was hired at U C Berkeley where he has taught Anthropology for 54 years. He served as Curator of North America in the Hearst Museum since 1972 and co-chair of Canadian Studies 1976-2013. He has held visiting positions in Canada, France, UK, Japan, and Brazil and has lectured at more than thirty universities in China. He has lived in 22 Inuit communities (1959-2014) in the Canadian Arctic (and Greenland and Alaska) researching kinship, cultural change, art and identity, and has focused on domestic tourism, ethnic tourism, multiculturalism and heritage in Japan (since 1974) and China (since 1991). His books and edited volumes include: Ethnic and Tourist Arts (1976)