Daniela Berti

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Ethnographic videos






  • 2016 Ethnographie des affaires judiciaires (with Franck Guillemain), Focus CEH, Cultures, Langues, Textes, CNRS Villejuif / Canal-U, 7’.
    Open access: https://www.canal-u.tv/video/cnrs_ups2259/daniela_berti_ethnographie_des_affaires_judiciaires_en_inde.24406
  • L'étude approfondie des procès, en combinant ethnographie et analyse de documents, fournit un angle d'accès pertinent et original à certaines questions cruciales dans le contexte contemporain de l'Inde – la définition de la criminalité, la relation entre l'état et les institutions religieuses, la politique de l'environnement, les droits fondamentaux, et le rôle de l’institution judiciaire dans l’exercice du pouvoir.
    Ethnographie des affaires judiciaires
  • 2011 Trials and Proceedings in a Shimla District Court. DVD. CEH / Cultures, Langues, Textes, CNRS Villejuif.
  • Field material edited with subtitles, presenting excerpts of three cases observed at Shimla District Court, in Northern India, in order to document the kind of interactive exchanges that occur in trials in India.
    Trials
  • 2009 Kings, Gods, and Political Leaders in Kullu. DVD, 27'. CEH / Cultures, langues, Textes, CNRS Villejuif. Included in M. Lecomte-Tilouine (ed.). Bards and Mediums: History, Culture, and Politics in the Central Himalayan Kingdoms. Almora: Almora Book Depot.
    The video focuses on some of the main actors that take part in the Kullu Dashera festival and provides a visual complement to the article 'Kings, Gods and Political Leaders in Kullu' (Berti 2009)
  • Bards & Mediums
  • 2007 Cases of possession in Himachal Pradesh (with Arghyro Paouri).DVD, CEH / CNRS Villejuif.
    Field material edited with subtitles presenting five cases of oracular consultation and 'problem-solving' in Himachal Pradesh (Northern India)
  • Cases of possession
  • 1992 'Jadu hoina' (It's not magic), Bhojpur (Nepal orientale). Super VHS  10'. Ed: Video Artigiano. Materiali di Antropologia Visiva 4, Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari.
    A Newar Jhankri ritual procedure taht is supposed to ‘suck out’ the illness.
  • Jadu Hoina
  • 1991 Deopuchna. Ritual consultations  in Himachal Pradesh (North India). Super VHS;  20': ed. Video Artigiano. Archivio di Antropologia. Università "La Sapienza", Roma.
    Village gods of Himachal Pradesh (Northern India) 'speak' and 'play' through their institutional mediums (gur) who are supposed to be 'possessed' by them.
  • Deopuchna