Sinah Theres Kloß

New Chapter

“Filming Mother: Performing Respectability through Ethnographic Documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai Puja,” In: Shooting Back: Documentary Film in Latin America and the Caribbean (ed. Christopher Ballengee), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 219-235.

New Article @ Material Religion

"Skin"

Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 21(4–5), 409–416. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2025.2586930 

New Article @ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Hair as Sensory Skin: Sensitive Bodies, Ritual Shaving, and the Maintenance of Bodily Boundaries in Hindu Suriname"

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (incorporating Man) (2026, 32(1): 269-292).

https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70012

Associate Editor @ Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief  (Taylor & Francis)

New Research Network

ReCAP - Reproduction: Critical Approaches and Perspectives on Pregnancy, Birth, and (Non)Parenthood

Initiated by Isabel Kalous (Erlangen-Nuremberg), Sinah Kloß (Bonn), Luvena Kopp (Bonn), Lisa Krall (Cologne), and Christina Lammer (Duisburg-Essen)

***Next meeting: March 13, 2026***

CfP @ ReCAP

"Pregnancy, Birth, and (Non)Parenthood: Critical Approaches to Reproduction" on May 8, 2026 in Bonn, Germany

Deadline: October 31, 2025

Special Issue @ Body & Society

"Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy" (with Antonia Villinger)

New Article @ Body & Society

"Pregnant Bodies – Embodied Pregnancy: An Introduction" (with Antonia Villinger)

Body & Society 31(1-2)

https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X251322120

New Article @ Body & Society

"Sensitive Bodies: Materialisation, Energetic States and the Balancing of Bodily Boundaries During Pregnancy and Birth"

Body & Society 31(1-2)

https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X251322073

Magazine Article @ Dependent

"Tattoos as Archive: Tattooed Bodies, Religion, and Resistance in the Indo-Caribbean"

Dependent: The Magazine of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies 25 (1), 27-30.

Edited Volume Competing Memories of Enslavement, Emancipation and Indentureship: The Politics of Remembering in the Caribbean (with A. Gremels and U. Schmieder). DOI: 10.1515/9783112224939. January 2026. (open access)

Edited Volume "Transforming Spirit Bodies: Materialization and Embodied Dependencies in South America" (with L. Muders and T. Tagliati), March 2025 (open access)

Edited Volume

New York: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).

The Early Americas: History and Culture

Series Editors: Mariana Françozo, Rosemary Joyce, Sinah Kloß, Genner Llanes-Ortiz and Karoline Noack

@ Brill