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 @ ZERG Lecture Series
"Marks of Dependency: Religious Tattooing among Caribbean Hindu Women"
University of Bonn, Germany
June 28, 2022; 6:15 pm
Discussant @ Workshop
"Materialities, Relationalities, Porosities: Anthropological Perspectives on Skin Beyond the Social"
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
February 18, 2022
Publication
"Tattoo," 2021. In: The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Wiley Online Library.
Book Chapter
“Touching Deities: Offerings, Energies, and the Notion of Touch in Guyanese Hinduism”, In: Religion and Touch (eds. C. Welch and A. Whitehead), Sheffield: Equinox Publishing (Religion of the Senses), pp. 51-66.
Discussant @ Round Table
"'Picture a Scientist' - Frauen der Wissenschaft"
Podiumsdiskussion & Streaming-Event
Equal Opportunity Office, University of Bonn
July 20, 2021; 12-2pm
Talk @ Workshop "Narratives of Dependency", University of Bonn
"Tattooed Dependency: Embodied Narratives of Suffering and Endurance"
July 16, 2021; 12:15pm
Talk @ DGSKA (German Anthropological Association) Working Group "Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology"
"The Gatekeeper’s Touch: Sexualized Harassment and Power Dynamics during Ethnographic Fieldwork"
July 7, 2021; 5pm
Book Chapter
"Ritualtransfer und Transnationalismus: Zur Konstruktion von Kontexten vor dem Hintergrund transnationaler Migration." 2021. In: Kontextwechsel und Bedeutung (ed. T. Greub, S. Kloß, T. Schröder), Paderborn/Leiden: Fink/Brill, pp. 193-211, Fig. p. 8-10 (Tafeln).
Talk @ Department of Asian and Islamic Art History, University of Bonn
"Sartorial Contestations of Indianness: Guyanese ‘Indian Wear’ and the Creation of the Indian Other"
June 14, 2021; 6pm
Talk @ Institutskolloquium, Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
"Fieldwork as Embodied Practice: Sexualized Harassment, Gender and Power Dynamics in the Field"
May 25, 2021; 5pm
Talk @ Lecture Series "Rethinking Area Studies, Producing Space from the ›Global South‹? Post/Colonial Perspectives and
(G)local Challenges"
"Un-Mapping the 'Global South': Reflections on a Heuristic Concept"
University of Regensburg, Germany
April 15, 2021; 6 pm
Talk @ Bard College, New York, USA
"Staying in Touch: Touch, Material Likeness and Gifts of Touched Clothing"
March 29, 2021; 12 pm (EST)
Latest BookS
Edited Volume
New York: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).
Edited Volume.
Paderborn: Brill | Fink.
Edited volume
Munich: oekom.
Upcoming Events
Conference @ BCDSS, University of Bonn, Germany
Competing Memories: The Politics of Remembering Slavery, Emancipation and Indentureship in the Caribbean
Socare e.V.'s bi-annual conference, organized by Sinah Kloß (Bonn), Andrea Gremels (Frankfurt) and Ulrike Schmieder (Hannover)
March 29-31, 2023
Conference @ BCDSS, University of Bonn, Germany
Transforming Spirit Bodies: Changing Materialities and Embodied Dependencies
September 29-30, 2022
