Lars Krutak

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lars Krutak
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Apr 14, 1971(1971-04-14)
Age	53
Birthplace	Lincoln
Country	United States
Birth City	Nebraska
Horoscope	Aries

Lars Krutak Biography

Lars Krutak is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on April 14, 1971 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Krutak was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Dr. Paul Krutak, a traveling geologist and university professor, who moved the family to Mexico City in 1979 and then to a series of states including Louisiana, Texas, and eventually Colorado where Lars grew up in the small mountain town atmosphere of Rye, Colorado. Krutak attended the University of Colorado at Boulder studying art history and anthropology and upon graduation (1993) he moved to San Francisco to work as an art gallery preparator for Paul Thiebaud, the son of American Pop artist Wayne Thiebaud. In 1996, Krutak attended graduate school at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks where his thesis One Stitch at a Time: Ivalu and Sivuqaq Tattoo focused on the ancient tattooing traditions of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik people.

Krutak briefly attended Cambridge University as a PhD student in 1998 but he returned stateside joining the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution) where he worked as a Repatriation Research Specialist (between 1999–2002) facilitating the return of sacred and ceremonial objects and human remains to indigenous peoples throughout North America and Mexico. Between 1998 and 2003 he also worked for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe as a Democratization Analyst and Applied Anthropologist in several countries of the former Yugoslavia monitoring electoral reforms.

Lars Krutak Net Worth

Lars Krutak is one of the richest Anthropologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lars Krutak 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lars Krutak (Lincoln, Nebraska April 14, 1971) is an American anthropologist, photographer, and writer known for his research about tattoo and its cultural background. He produced and hosted the 10-part documentary series Tattoo Hunter on the Discovery Channel, which traveled the indigenous world to showcase vanishing art forms of body modification. Between 1999-2002 and 2010-2014, Krutak worked as an Archaeologist and Repatriation Case Officer at the National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of Natural History, facilitating the return of human remains, funerary objects, sacred and ceremonial objects. Today, he is a Research Associate at the Museum of International Folk Art.

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Krutak’s tattoo research is regularly published internationally in magazines TätowierMagazin (Germany), Total Tattoo (UK) and Skin & Ink Magazine (USA). In September 2012, Lars’ new book Magical Tattoos and Scarification: Spiritual Skin. Wisdom. Healing. Shamanic Power. Protection (ISBN 9783943105117) was released by Edition Reuss. This photographic masterwork explores the secret world of magical tattooing and scarification across the tribal world. Based on one decade of Dr. Krutak’s field research among animistic and shamanic societies of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Melanesia, Magical Tattoos and Scarification journeys into highly sacred territory to reveal how people utilize ritual body modification to enhance their access to the supernatural.

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John Ranked on the list of most popular Anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Lars Krutak celebrates birthday on April 14 of every year.

Krutak’s research on the history of Native North American tattoo, including contemporary revitalization movements, was published in the 2014 book “Tattoo Traditions of Native North America: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity” distributed by the University of Washington Press.