Sinah Theres Kloß
I'm a social anthropologist and research group leader at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn, Germany. My main research areas are the anthropology of religion; body politics and embodiment; material culture studies; tattooing, clothing and dress; transnational migration; and Postcolonial and Southern theory. My regional focus is on the Caribbean, especially Guyana and Suriname, but I also specialize in the transcultural flows between India and the Caribbean.
News
Book Chapter
“Talking History: Ethnographic Interviews, Intersectional Identities, and Power Negotiations in Research Encounters,” In: Un-Mapping the Global South (eds. G. Bauer, N. Hirschfelder and F. Resende), New York: Routledge, 37-54. DOI: 10.4324/9781003422853-4
Podcast Episode @ Exzellent erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle
"Tätowierungen: Tattoos als Instrumente der Macht"
Feb. 1, 2024
Voted Equal Opportunity Representative of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) for the period 12/2023-12/2025
December 15, 2023
Magazine Article @ Dependent
"All Money Spent: Celebrating '150 Years of Indian Immigration' in Suriname."
In: Dependent: The Magazine of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, 2023 (2), pp. 36-39.
Talk @ CeMIS Kolloquium
"Tattoos and Sonic Imitation: Mantras, Purification and Body Tuning in Caribbean Hindu Communities"
Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen
November 22, 2023; 4-6pm
Talk @ Conference "Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour"
Anton de Kom Universiteit, Paramaribo, Suriname
"Godnas, Gurus and Gurmukh: Beyond Tattoos as Marks of Servitude and Resistance in Hindu Suriname and Guyana"
June 7, 2023; 10:30 am
Book Chapter
"‘We knew it!’: Caribbean Hindu Responses to Restrictions of Touch during COVID-19. 2023." In: CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age (eds. N. Lang, E. Larson, C. Lorea and E. Hertzman), University of Hawai‘i Press, pp. 129-133.
Head of Committee @ Socare e.V. (Society for Caribbean Research)
Elected as Head of Committee in the Socare Executive Board for the period March 2023 - March 2025
Talk @ MESH Cross-pollinators
with Carolin Schwegler
University of Cologne, Germany
April 4, 2023 | 12.00-13.00
Call for Papers @ Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies
"Indentured Bodies / Embodiments of Indenture", edited by Sinah Kloß and Jennifer Leetsch
Research Article @ The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
"Embodying Dependency: Caribbean Godna (Tattoos) as Female Subordination and Resistance", 2022, 27(4): 601–612.
Latest BookS
Edited Volume
New York: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).
Edited Volume.
Paderborn: Brill | Fink.
Edited volume
Munich: oekom.
Upcoming Events
Workshop Series and Study Group
"Anthropological Perspectives on Embodied Dependencies"
Past events
Film Screening and Discussion
"Sweet Tassa: Music of the Indian Caribbean Diaspora"
September 16, 2023
