- Visiting Fellow
- Herrmans, Isabell
- Dr. (Social Sciences)
- Time period: 01.10.2022 - 31.05.2023
- Research title: Defining Religion from the Margins
- Research Region: Indonesia
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- Video Statement
1.7.2019-31.12.2021: Researcher, University of Helsinki, Swedish School of Social Sciences, project “Dynamics of Religion at the Margins of Modern Indonesia”, funded by the Kone Foundation.
1.9.2014–30.8.2018: Post doctoral researcher in Academy of Finland project “Contested Values in Indonesia: Value Creation and Value Relations in Contemporary Borneo,” Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.
Post doctoral researcher, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki 1.1. 2012 – 31.12. 2012, 1.6.2014-30.8.2014. Funding: the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, the Oskar Öflund Foundation, the Otto Malm Foundation.
Doctoral position, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki 1.9. 1997 – 30.9.1999. Funding: the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Foundation; the Alfred Kordelin Foundation; 1.9. 2002 – 30.4.2004, funding: the Oskar Öflund Foundation, and the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation; 1.9. – 30.12. 2007, funding: the Nordenskiöld Foundation; 1.3. – 21.5. 2010, funding: the University of Helsinki.
Isabell Herrmans received her doctorate in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Helsinki in 2011. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland-funded project ‘Contested Values in Indonesia: Value Creation and Value Relations in Contemporary Borneo’ (2014-2018) and has received funding for her own research project ‘Dynamics of Religion at the Margins of Modern Indonesia’ from the Kone Foundation (2018-2021). She has done 28 months of intermittent fieldwork among Luangan Dayak people in East and Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Her research interests include healing rituals, religious rationalization, animist ontologies, values, environmental change, and sociality. She has published a monograph on Luangan healing rituals by Berghahn Press (2015).
Monograph
Herrmans, Isabell. 2015. Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice. New York: Berghahn Press.
Articles
Herrmans, Isabell. 2021. Ritual Sociality and the Limits of Shamanic Efficacy among the Luangan of Indonesian Borneo. Anthropological Forum 31(1): 49-63.
Herrmans, Isabell. 2020. Spirits Out of Place: Luangan Relational Landscapes and Environmental Change. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26 (4): 766-785.
Herrmans, Isabell. 2017. Values in Practice: Change and Continuity in Luangan Ritual Performance. In C. Arenz, M. Haug, S. Seitz and O. Venz (eds.): Continuity under Change in Dayak Societies. pp. 191-210. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Herrmans, Isabell. 2017. Genre Diversification: Orthodoxy and Innovation in an Indonesian Minority Religion. Indonesia and the Malay World 45 (131): 24-43.
1.7.2019-31.12.2021: Researcher, University of Helsinki, Swedish School of Social Sciences, project “Dynamics of Religion at the Margins of Modern Indonesia”, funded by the Kone Foundation.
1.9.2014–30.8.2018: Post doctoral researcher in Academy of Finland project “Contested Values in Indonesia: Value Creation and Value Relations in Contemporary Borneo,” Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.
Post doctoral researcher, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki 1.1. 2012 – 31.12. 2012, 1.6.2014-30.8.2014. Funding: the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, the Oskar Öflund Foundation, the Otto Malm Foundation.
Doctoral position, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki 1.9. 1997 – 30.9.1999. Funding: the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Foundation; the Alfred Kordelin Foundation; 1.9. 2002 – 30.4.2004, funding: the Oskar Öflund Foundation, and the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation; 1.9. – 30.12. 2007, funding: the Nordenskiöld Foundation; 1.3. – 21.5. 2010, funding: the University of Helsinki.
Isabell Herrmans received her doctorate in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Helsinki in 2011. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland-funded project ‘Contested Values in Indonesia: Value Creation and Value Relations in Contemporary Borneo’ (2014-2018) and has received funding for her own research project ‘Dynamics of Religion at the Margins of Modern Indonesia’ from the Kone Foundation (2018-2021). She has done 28 months of intermittent fieldwork among Luangan Dayak people in East and Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Her research interests include healing rituals, religious rationalization, animist ontologies, values, environmental change, and sociality. She has published a monograph on Luangan healing rituals by Berghahn Press (2015).
Monograph
Herrmans, Isabell. 2015. Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice. New York: Berghahn Press.
Articles
Herrmans, Isabell. 2021. Ritual Sociality and the Limits of Shamanic Efficacy among the Luangan of Indonesian Borneo. Anthropological Forum 31(1): 49-63.
Herrmans, Isabell. 2020. Spirits Out of Place: Luangan Relational Landscapes and Environmental Change. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26 (4): 766-785.
Herrmans, Isabell. 2017. Values in Practice: Change and Continuity in Luangan Ritual Performance. In C. Arenz, M. Haug, S. Seitz and O. Venz (eds.): Continuity under Change in Dayak Societies. pp. 191-210. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Herrmans, Isabell. 2017. Genre Diversification: Orthodoxy and Innovation in an Indonesian Minority Religion. Indonesia and the Malay World 45 (131): 24-43.
