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Contesting 'Gifts from Jesus': Conversion, Charity, and the Distribution of Used Clothing in Guyana. 2017. Social Sciences and Missions 30 (3), pp. 346-365. DOI: 10.1163/18748945-03003003

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Manifesting Kali’s Power: Guyanese Hinduism and the Revitalisation of the ‘Madras Tradition’. 2017. Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies. Special Issue: Religion in Contemporary Caribbean Society, 41 (1), pp. 83-110.

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Forthcoming

 

S. Kloß (2025): "Sensitive Bodies: Materialisation, Energetic States and the Balancing of Bodily Boundaries during Pregnancy and Birth", Body & Society.

S. Kloß and A. Villinger (2025): "Pregnant Bodies – Embodied Pregnancy: An Introduction", Body & Society.

S. Kloß and J. Leetsch (2024): "Introduction: Indentured Bodies / Embodiments of Indenture", Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies 4 (2).

Special Issues

Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy (eds. Sinah Theres Kloß and Antonia Villinger), Body & Society, 2025 forthcoming.

Indentured Bodies / Embodiments of Indenture (eds. Sinah Theres Kloß and Jennifer Leetsch), Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies 4 (2), 2024 forthcoming.

The Global South as Subversive Practice (ed. Sinah Theres Kloß), The Global South 11 (2), 2017, Indiana University Press. DOI: 10.2979/globalsouth.11.2.01

Book Chapters

forthcoming. "Transforming Spirit Bodies: Materialization and Embodied Dependencies," In: Transforming Spirit Bodies: Materialization and Embodied Dependencies in South America (eds. Sinah T. Kloß, Lena Muders and Taynã Tagliati), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 1-27.

forthcoming. "Filming Mother: Performing Respectability through Ethnographic Documentaries on Guyanese Kali-Mai Puja," In: Documentary Film in Latin American and the Caribbean (ed. Christopher Ballengee).

2025. "Beyond Subordination versus Emancipation: Caribbean Godna (Tattoos) as Means of Recreating Social Relations and Affective Bonds", In: Control, Coercion, and Constraint: The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency, edited by Wolfram Kinzig and Barbara Loose, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 205-224. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111380575-011

2024. “Tattooed Dependencies: Sensory Memory, Structural Violence and Narratives of Suffering among Caribbean Hindu Women,” In: Narratives of Dependency (eds. E. Brüggen and M. Gymnich), Berlin: De Gruyter, 347-365. DOI: 10.1515/9783111381824-016

2024. “Talking History: Ethnographic Interviews, Intersectional Identities, and Power Negotiations in Research Encounters,” In: Un-Mapping the Global South (eds. G. Bauer, N. Hirschfelder and F. Resende), New York: Routledge, 37-54. DOI: 10.4324/9781003422853-4

2023. ‘We knew it!’: Caribbean Hindu Responses to Restrictions of Touch during COVID-19. In: CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age (eds. N. Lang, E. Larson, C. Lorea and E. Hertzman), University of Hawai‘i Press, pp. 129-133.

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.

2021. Ritualtransfer und Transnationalismus: Zur Konstruktion von Kontexten vor dem Hintergrund transnationaler Migration. In: Kontextwechsel und Bedeutung (ed. T. Greub, S. Kloß, T. Schröder), Paderborn/Leiden: Fink/Brill, pp. 193-211, Fig. p. 8-10 (Tafeln).

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).

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2020. Indelible Ink: An Introduction to the Histories, Narratives, and Practices of Tattooing. In: Tattoo Histories: Transcultural Perspectives on the Narratives, Practices, and Representations of Tattooing (ed. Sinah Kloß), London, New York: Routledge, pp. 3-30.

2020. Fairer Handel - Chances, Grenzen, Herausforderungen: Einleitung. In: Fairer Handel - Chances, Grenzen, Herausforderungen (eds. K. Gröne, B. Braun, S. Kloß, M. Schüller, M. Bollig), Munich: oekom, pp. 7-14.

2020. Wearing the Shikha: Guruization and Sanskritization in a Transnational Guyanese Hindu Community. In: Mundos Caribeños – Caribbean Worlds – Mondes Caraïbes (eds. G. Knauer, I. Phaf-Rheinberger), Iberoamericana/Vervuert, pp. 393-408.


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.


2019. Translocal Puja: The Relevance of Gift Exchange and Locality in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities. In:

Routledge Handbook of Indian Transnationalism (eds. A. K. Sahoo, B. Purkayastha), New York: Routledge, pp. 69-77.

2019. Giving to Mother Ganga: Gift Exchange, Social Hierarchy and the Notion of Pollution in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities. In: Re-Imagining the Guyanas (eds. Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroix, Judith Mizrahi-Barak), Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, pp. 215-228.

2019. Perspektivenkonkurrenz in digitalen Medien - ein Diskussionsbericht. In: Competing Perspectives: Figures of Image Control (eds. G. Blamberger and D. Boschung), Wilhelm Fink: Paderborn. pp. 291-312.


2018. Staying in Touch: Used Clothes and the Role of Materiality in Transnational Guyanese Gift Exchange. Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean: Relaciones y Desconexiones, Relations et Déconnexions, Relations and Disconnections (eds. Anja Bandau, Anne Brüske und Natascha Ueckmann), Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, pp. 351-365.

2017. Performing Authenticity through Fashion: Sartorial Contestations of Guyanese Indianness and the Creation of the Indian 'Other'. In: Fashion Tales: Feeding the Imaginary (eds. E. Mora and M. Pedroni), Peter Lang: Bern, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York. pp. 327-344.


2014. The Caribbean (on the) Dining Table. (with W. Beushausen, A. Brüske, A.-S. Commichau and P. Helber). In: Caribbean Food Cultures: Culinary Practices and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas. transcript: Bielefeld. pp.1-24.

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Essays, Newspaper & Magazine Articles

All Money Spent: Celebrating '150 Years of Indian Immigration' in Suriname. Dependent: The Magazine of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, 2023 (2), pp. 36-39.

 

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We knew it!’ - Caribbean Hindu Responses to Restrictions of Touch during COVID-19. CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19 (October 28, 2020), np.

"Hindus in Indien sind zu modern": Die kreative Neuerfindung und Wiederentdeckung von Hindu-Traditionen in Guyana. 2020. matices - Zeitschrift zu Lateinamerika, Spanien und Portugal (100 - April 2020). pp. 30-32.

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Encyclopedia Entries

Guyana. 2019. In: Staatenlexikon Amerika (eds. W. Gieler and M. Porsche-Ludwig). Peter Lang: Frankfurt, pp. 219-226.

Suriname. 2019. In: Staatenlexikon Amerika (eds. W. Gieler and M. Porsche-Ludwig). Peter Lang: Frankfurt, pp. 411-416.

Guyana. 2019. In: Handbuch Außenpolitik Amerika (eds. W. Gieler and M. Porsche-Ludwig). LIT Verlag: Münster, pp. 153-160.

Suriname. 2019. In: Handbuch Außenpolitik Amerika (eds. W. Gieler and M. Porsche-Ludwig). LIT Verlag: Münster, pp. 313-318.

Reviews & Conference Reports

Review of Food and Identity in the Caribbean by Garth, H. (ed.), London, New York: Bloomsbury. Passato e Presente (98), pp. 181-183. Italian translation, 2016.

Conference Report of the conference Reshaping (g)local dynamics of the Caribbean: Relaciones y Desconexiones – Relations et Déconnections – Relations and Disconnections, 14.10.2015–17.10.2015, Hannover, in: H-Soz-Kult 03.03.2016.