Isabell Herrmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 642045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabell Herrmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabell |
| FAMILY NAME | Herrmans |
| SIGNATURE | HERRMANS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1525-0366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ritual Sociality and the Limits of Shamanic Efficacy among the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo
This article uses a myth of the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo to reflect upon the value of sociality and its role in promoting well-being in their healing rituals. In these rituals, sociality with nonhuman beings and between participants is crucial, yet insufficient for, and sometimes at odds with, success. The article describes the multiple modes and valences of this ritual sociality, and how it is fundamentally predicated on a 'conditional onto…
Spirits out of place: Relational landscapes and environmental change in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
This article examines interaction with spirits among the Luangan, a group of shifting cultivators in Indonesian Borneo. Through examples of different forms of Luangan spirit interaction, it interrogates the relationship between the spirit world and the natural environment, with special reference to what happens when the latter undergoes dramatic change. Inspired by Eduardo Kohn's understanding of how the spirit world is semiotically embedded with…
Permeable Personhood and Techniques for Negotiating Boundaries of the Self among the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo
This article explores the negotiation of permeable personhood and human health and well-being in the healing rituals ( belian ) of the Luangans, a group of indigenous people of Indonesian Borneo. I describe different techniques employed in the rituals relating to the soul and other components of the self and to extraneous, unbound spirit agencies. Luangan rituals express a relational ontology according to which the constitution of personhood and …
Genre diversification: Orthodoxy and innovation in an Indonesian minority religion
This article explores adaptation to demands of affiliation with a world religion and increasing religious orthodoxy among followers of the indigenous (Hindu) Kaharingan religion in Indonesian Borneo. It compares ritual practices and notions of religious identity in the provinces of Central Kalimantan (where the local religion has been officially recognised as an agama) and East Kalimantan (where it has not). The empirical material is based on eth…
Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
"Belianis an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do - socially, politically, and existentially - for particular people in particular circumstances. Departing from the conception that rituals exist as ethereal, liminal or insulated traditional…
Spirits out of place: Relational landscapes and environmental change in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
This article examines interaction with spirits among the Luangan, a group of shifting cultivators in Indonesian Borneo. Through examples of different forms of Luangan spirit interaction, it interrogates the relationship between the spirit world and the natural environment, with special reference to what happens when the latter undergoes dramatic change. Inspired by Eduardo Kohn's understanding of how the spirit world is semiotically embedded with…
Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
"Belianis an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do - socially, politically, and existentially - for particular people in particular circumstances. Departing from the conception that rituals exist as ethereal, liminal or insulated traditional…
Ritual Sociality and the Limits of Shamanic Efficacy among the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo
This article uses a myth of the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo to reflect upon the value of sociality and its role in promoting well-being in their healing rituals. In these rituals, sociality with nonhuman beings and between participants is crucial, yet insufficient for, and sometimes at odds with, success. The article describes the multiple modes and valences of this ritual sociality, and how it is fundamentally predicated on a 'conditional onto…
Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
"Belianis an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do - socially, politically, and existentially - for particular people in particular circumstances. Departing from the conception that rituals exist as ethereal, liminal or insulated traditional…
Permeable Personhood and Techniques for Negotiating Boundaries of the Self among the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo
This article explores the negotiation of permeable personhood and human health and well-being in the healing rituals ( belian ) of the Luangans, a group of indigenous people of Indonesian Borneo. I describe different techniques employed in the rituals relating to the soul and other components of the self and to extraneous, unbound spirit agencies. Luangan rituals express a relational ontology according to which the constitution of personhood and …
Genre diversification: Orthodoxy and innovation in an Indonesian minority religion
This article explores adaptation to demands of affiliation with a world religion and increasing religious orthodoxy among followers of the indigenous (Hindu) Kaharingan religion in Indonesian Borneo. It compares ritual practices and notions of religious identity in the provinces of Central Kalimantan (where the local religion has been officially recognised as an agama) and East Kalimantan (where it has not). The empirical material is based on eth…
Spirits out of place: Relational landscapes and environmental change in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
This article examines interaction with spirits among the Luangan, a group of shifting cultivators in Indonesian Borneo. Through examples of different forms of Luangan spirit interaction, it interrogates the relationship between the spirit world and the natural environment, with special reference to what happens when the latter undergoes dramatic change. Inspired by Eduardo Kohn's understanding of how the spirit world is semiotically embedded with…
Ritual Sociality and the Limits of Shamanic Efficacy among the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo
This article uses a myth of the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo to reflect upon the value of sociality and its role in promoting well-being in their healing rituals. In these rituals, sociality with nonhuman beings and between participants is crucial, yet insufficient for, and sometimes at odds with, success. The article describes the multiple modes and valences of this ritual sociality, and how it is fundamentally predicated on a 'conditional onto…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Indonesian (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works)