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

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"