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 @ EASA 2020
"Two Narratives of Sexualized Harassment during Fieldwork: Processing Harassment in Academic Writing and Ethnographic Fiction"
Lisbon, Portugal
July 2020
Talk @ 60 Minutes in Ethnography, Theory, Anthropology, University of Cologne
"Tätowierte Klänge: Körpertexte und Tattoos in karibischen Hindu-Gemeinschaften"
May 6, 2020
postponed to:
to be announced
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
postponed to:
to be announced (November 2020)
Talk @ Ev. Erwachsenenbildungswerk Westfalen und Lippe e. V.
"Wenn der Glaube unter die Haut geht: Religiöse Symbolik in Tattoos"
Dortmund
March 19, 2020
postponed to:
November 3, 2020; 7-9 pm
Chapter (Open Access)
Kloß, Sinah T. (2020): "Giving and development: Ethno-religious identities and ‘holistic development’ in Guyana." In:
Faith-Based Organizations in Development Discourses and Practice (eds. J. Koehrsen, A. Heuser), London: Routledge, pp. 113-138.
Latest Book
Edited Volume
New York: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).
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
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
Past Events
Conference @ Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne
organized by Dietrich Boschung, Thierry Greub, Sinah Kloß and Thoralf Schröder
February 5-7, 2020
