Lars Krutak

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Lars Krutak (right) in Ethiopia

Lars Krutak (born April 14, 1971 in Lincoln ) is an American anthropologist , photographer and writer who is known for his research on tattoo and its cultural background. He produced and hosted the 10-part documentary series Tattoo Hunter , in which he travels the indigenous world to show dwindling art forms of body modification. From 1999 to 2014, Krutak worked as an archaeologist and repatriation officer at the National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History , facilitating the return of human remains, grave goods, sacred and ceremonial objects. Today he is a research fellow at the Museum of International Folk Art .

Life

Lars Krutak (left) in Mozambique

Lars Krutak was born in Lincoln, Nebraska to Paul Krutak , a traveling geologist and university professor. He studied art history and anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and moved to San Francisco after graduating in 1993. In 1996 Krutak attended graduate school at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, where he wrote his thesis, One stitch at a time: ivalu and Sivuqaq tattoo . Between 1998 and 2003 he worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as a democratization analyst and applied anthropologist in several countries of the former Yugoslavia and oversaw electoral reforms. Since 2002 Krutak has worked as an anthropological consultant for three productions on the National Geographic Channel. In the year he wrote his dissertation on Selling the Copper Canyon: Tourism and Rarámuri Socioeconomics in Northwest Mexico and received his PhD from Arizona State University .

Act

Krutak's book The Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women was published in 2007 and was the first book to focus on the tattoo arts of indigenous women worldwide. In August 2010, Krutak published an illustrated book entitled Kalinga Tattoo: Ancient & Modern Expressions of the Tribal: Ancient and Modern Expressions of the Tribal (Body Art Tattooing) .

Krutaks tattoo research is regularly internationally in magazines TätowierMagazin (Germany), Total Tattoo (UK) and Skin & Ink Magazine published (USA). Krutak also publishes his research in images and sound; In 2009 he made a film about the scarifications of the Kaningara.

Works (selection)

  • Kalinga Tattoo: Ancient and Modern Expressions of the Tribal. Edition Reuss, Glattbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-934020-86-3 .
  • Spiritual Skin: Magical Tattoos and Scarification , Edition Reuss, Glattbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-943105-11-7 .

Web links

Commons : Lars Krutak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Fischer: Because of a typo: Ötzi has the oldest tattoos. In: Spektrum.de, December 16, 2015.
  2. ↑ internationalfolkart.academia.edu Lars Krutak ; accessed on August 22, 2019
  3. ^ Fort Hays State University President's Distinguished Scholar Past Recipients
  4. ↑ worldcat.org MA University of Alaska Fairbanks 1998
  5. ^ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 491pp.
personal data
SURNAME Krutak, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln