Nelson H. H. Graburn, is a Professor Emeritus in Sociocultural Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley.
He had visiting appointments at a number of national museums globally including the National Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, Canada Le Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques, Aix-en-Provence, the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka, the Research Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu National University, Fukuoka, the International Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development, London Metropolitan University, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil and he has lectured at twenty-four Chinese universities.
[6] His areas of research include "social and cultural anthropology, kinship, art, tourism, Japan, circumpolar, China, Heritage, and Inuit.
The next year he spent three months in Kimmirut, then known as Lake Harbour, Baffin Island continuing his research with the Inuit.
The data from both field trips was also submitted as reports in 1960 and 1963 to the Canadian Government as part of the newly formed Northern Coordination and Research Centre.
"[11] His most highly cited works include his 1977 publication, Tourism: the Sacred Journey[12] and his 1976 book entitled Ethnic Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World.