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
Talk @ Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR)
"Touching Deities: Offerings, Energies, and the Notion of Touch in Guyanese Hinduism"
December 1, 2020
1:45 - 3:15 PM
Essay @ Blog CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19, National University of Singapore
"‘We knew it!’ - Caribbean Hindu Responses to Restrictions of Touch during COVID-19", October 28, 2020.
Article @ Lateinamerika Nachrichten
"'Polittricks' bestimmen das System:
Präsidentschaftswahlen, Ölprofite und Ethnopolitisierung in Guyana", Lateinamerika Nachrichten 557, November 2020, pp. 20-22.
Chapter
Kloß, Sinah T. (2020): "Götterstatuen als multi-sensorische Porträts: Zur (materiellen) Ähnlichkeit und Bedeutung der Berührung bei hinduistischen Murtis." In: Revisionen des Porträts (ed. T. Greub), Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, pp. 129-148, Fig. p. 11)
Chapter
Kloß, Sinah T. (2020): "Performing 'Religiousness': Negotiations of Religion and the Formation of Identity in Guyanese Development Organisations." In Does Religion Make a Difference? Religious NGOs in International Development Collaboration (eds. A. Heuser, J. Koehrsen), Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 191 - 206.
Talk @ 60 Minutes in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology, University of Cologne
"Tätowierte Klänge: Körpertexte und Tattoos in karibischen Hindu-Gemeinschaften"
May 6, 2020
due to COVID-19 postponed to:
Summer term 2021
Talk @ Ev. Erwachsenenbildungswerk Westfalen und Lippe e. V.
"Wenn der Glaube unter die Haut geht: Religiöse Symbolik in Tattoos"
Dortmund
March 19, 2020
due to COVID-19 postponed to: tba
Talk @ International Conference
Between Mobilities and Demarcations of Boundaries: Education and the Politics of Education in the Caribbean
Socare Annual Conference, Erlangen
"Having to Educate: The Notion of ‘Holistic Development’ and Post-Development Discourse in Guyana"
March 22, 2020
due to COVID-19 postponed to:
March 2021
Latest BookS
Edited Volume
New York: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).
Edited volume
Munich: oekom.
Upcoming Events
Conference @ Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany
North and South: Forms of Inequality within International Politics of Scientific Production
organized by Barbara Potthast, Claudio Pinheiro and Sinah Kloß
June 29-July 1, 2020
due to COVID-19 postponded to:
to be announced
Conference @ Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne
Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy
organized by Antonia Villinger, Sinah Kloß and Günter Blamberger
May 25-26, 2020
due to COVID-19 postponed to:
January 14-15, 2021
PhD Seminar
Dependency, Vulnerability and Embodied Fieldwork: Sexualized Harassment and Power Dynamics in the Field
University of Bonn
April 21-22, 2021
Deadline for Applications: October 15, 2020