Daniela BertiNational Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)France  |
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A social anthropologist (PhD 1997, University of Florence; PhD grant,
University of Siena; 'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches' 2021,
University of Paris Nanterre), Daniela Berti initially focused her
research on
the logic of
interaction and of interpretive procedures in the context of various
ritual settings in India - oracular consultations, astrology,
Brahmanical and tantric rituals. She also studied the political
implications that some of these ritual frameworks imply - particularly
with regard to royal festivals, ritual iconography and historical
writing.
Over the last ten years, her research has focused on the ethnographic study of judicial settings in India. She has conducted research on various district courts in Himachal Pradesh (Kullu, Mandi, Shimla) on criminal cases cannabis cultivation, drug trafficking, caste-based and dowry-related issues and, more recently, on cases related to the environment and animal rights. She carried out fieldwork at the National Green Tribunal in Delhi on cases dealing with conservation and species survival, and at the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun (Uttarakhand) where she studied how wildlife biologists monitor animal populations, and how scientific expertise is used in court litigation. In 2025 she started a comparative fieldwork in northern Italy on the management of invasive animal species, the reintroduction of endangered ones, and the conflictual views that such policies entail. |