Daniela Berti

National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
France

daniela.berti@cnrs.fr


Centre d'Etudes Sud Asiatiques et Himalayennes
(UMR 8077, CNRS-EHESS)







Campus Condorcet

Bldg. EHESS
2 cours des Humanités
93300 Aubervilliers
https://himalaya.cnrs.fr/spip3/spip.php?article159〈=en
Main research projects

Organization of recent workshops

Books

Other publications, and recent communications

Ethnographic videos
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 recently 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 studies how wildlife biologists monitor animal populations, and how scientific expertise is used in court litigation..