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1- Peer
Reviewed Articles
& Chapters
- 2023
"A
tale of many battles. Arguing legal personhood for animals in the
United States and India", Contributions to
Indian Sociology 1-2: 13-43.
(pdf: https://hal.science/hal-04333660).
- (with A. Good) “Introduction. The judicialisation and
politicisation of sacrifice”, in Daniela Berti & Anthony Good
(eds), Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in
South Asia, pp. 1-50.
Abingdon : Routledge. (Open access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284949-1)
- 2023
“Animal Sacrifice on Trial. Moral Reforms and Religious Freedom in
India”, in
Daniela Berti & Anthony Good (eds), Animal
Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia, pp.
79-130.
Abingdon
Routledge. (Open access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284949-3)
- 2022
“Possession, Communication and Power in Himachal Pradesh (North
India)”, in
Eva Pócs & András Zempléni (eds), Spirit
Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon, pp.
393-413.
Budapest/Vienna/New York: Central European University Press. (pdf: https://hal.science/hal-02427297v1/document)
- 2019 “Animals
in the
Public
Debate: Welfare, Rights, and
Conservationism in India”, in
Barbara Ambros & Reiko Ohnuma
(eds),
Buddhist Beasts: Reflections on Animals in Asian
Religions and Cultures, Religions 2019,
10 (8) :
475-99.
(Open access:
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/8/475)
- 2018
(with G. Tarabout), « Introduction », in D. Berti & G. Tarabout
(eds), Through the
Lens of the Law. Court Cases and Social Issues
in India, Samaj, 17.
(Open access: https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4433)
- 2018 “Suicide
Notes under Judicial Scrutiny in India »,
in D. Berti & G.
Tarabout (eds),
Through
the Lens of the Law. Court
Cases
and Social
Issues
in India, Samaj, 17. (Open
access: https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4481)
- 2017 (with G. Tarabout),
“Questioning the Truth: Ideals of Justice and Trial Techniques in
India”, in
Yazid Ben Hounet & Deborah Puccio-Den (eds), Truth,
Intentionality and Evidence. Anthropological
Approaches to
Crime, pp.
10-27.
Abingdon :
Routledge. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01612781/document)
- 2016 (with
G.
Tarabout & R. Voix), “Introduction”, in D. Berti, G. Tarabout
& R. Voix
(eds), Filing Religion. State, Hinduism,
and Courts of Law,
pp. xv-xlvi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01366229/document)
- 2016 “Plaintiff
deities. Ritual Honours as Fundamental Rights in India”,
in D. Berti, G. Tarabout & R. Voix (eds), Filing
Religion. State, Hinduism and Courts of Law, pp. 71-100. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02181508/document)
- 2016 “The Authority
of Law and the
Production of Truth in India”, Oral Tradition 30,
2
[Authoritative Speech in the Himalayas]:
345-60. (Open access: http://admin.oraltradition.org/wp-content/uploads/files/articles/30ii/09_30.2.pdf)
- 2016 (with
G.
Tarabout) « La
vérité en question. Idéal de justice et
techniques judiciaires en Inde », in Yazid Ben Hounet
& Deborah
Puccio-Den (eds), Autour du crime,
pp. 117-34. Paris: L’Herne (coll. Cahiers d’Anthropologie
Sociale, 13). (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01343829/document)
- 2015 «Gods’
Rights vs Hydroelectric Projects. Environmental
Conflicts and the Judicialization of Nature in India », Rivista
di Studi Orientali, Supplemento 2 : 111-29. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02334472/document)
- 2015 (with A. Good &
G. Tarabout),
“Introduction: Technologies of Doubt in Law and Ritual”, in D. Berti,
A. Good
& G. Tarabout (eds), Of Doubt and
Proof. Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment, pp.1-17.
Farnham:
Ashgate/Routledge.
- 2015 “The Technicalities of
Doubting: Temple
Consultations and District Courts in India”, in D. Berti, A. Good
& G.
Tarabout (eds), Of Doubt and Proof.
Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment, pp. 19-38. Farnham:
Ashgate/Routledge. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02321024/document)
- 2015
(with D. Bordia),
“Introduction”, in D. Berti
& D. Bordia (eds), Regimes of
Legality. Ethnography of Criminal Cases in South Asia, pp.
1-26. New Delhi:
Oxford University Press. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02342635/document)
- 2015
“Binding Fictions.
Contradictory Facts and
Judicial Constraints in a Narcotics Case in Himachal Pradesh”, in D.
Berti
& D. Bordia (eds), Regimes of
Legality. Ethnography of Criminal Cases in South Asia, pp.
91-128. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02321020/document)
- 2015 (with
G. Tarabout), « Religion et environnement dans les procédures
judiciaires
en Inde », Cahiers de la justice,
2015 / 3 : 409-20. (pdf:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01246138/document)
- 2015 “Local Powers and Judicial Constraints
in a
Case of Rape in India”, in D. Berti &
G. Tarabout (eds), The
Frontier of Law. Justice,
Powers and Politics, Diogenes 60
(3-4): 97-115. (English edition of Diogène,
239-240). (pdf:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01247626/document)
- 2015 (with G. Tarabout), “Introduction.
Practices
of Justice: Categories, Procedures and Strategies”, in
D. Berti &
G. Tarabout (eds), The Frontier of Law. Justice,
Powers and Politics, Diogenes
60 (3-4): 3-11. (English edition of Diogène,
239-240). (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01246833/document)
- 2015 (with
G.Tarabout),
chinese translation of « Pratiques de justice.
Catégories,
procédures,
stratégies », Diogenes (Chinese
edition), 2015/1 : 81-94.
- 2013 “Ritual
Faults and Legal Offences. A
Discussion about Two Patterns of Justice in Contemporary India”, in
Phyllis
Granoff & Koichi Shinohara (eds), Sin
and Sinners: Perspectives from Asian Religions, pp. 153-72. Leiden/Boston:
Brill. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00865688v3/document)
- 2013 « Pouvoirs
locaux et contraintes judiciaires dans une affaire de viol en
Inde », in
D. Berti & G. Tarabout (eds), Les frontières
de la loi. Justice,
pouvoirs et politique, Diogène,
239-240 (juillet-octobre 2012) : 142-68. (Open access: https://www.cairn.info/revue-diogene-2012-3-page-139.htm#)
- 2013
(with
G.
Tarabout), « Pratiques de justice. Catégories, procédures, stratégies»,
in
D. Berti & G. Tarabout (eds), Les frontières
de la loi. Justice,
pouvoirs et politique, Diogène,
239-240 (juillet-octobre 2012) : 3-14.
(pdf: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01141859/document)
- 2012 (with
G. Tarabout) “Criminal Proceedings in
India and the Question of Culture: An Anthropological Perspective”, in
Werner
Gephart (ed.) Rechtsanalyse als
Kulturforschung, pp.193-206. Frankfurt, Vittorio Klostermann.
(pdf: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00870593/document)
- 2011 "Courts of Law and Legal
Practice”, in
Isabelle Clark-Decès (ed.), A Companion to the Anthropology
of India,
pp. 355-70. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (pdf: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02335114/document)
- 2011 "Introduction", in Daniela Berti,
Nicolas Jaoul & Pralay Kanungo (eds), The
Cultural Entrenchment of Hindutva. Local Mediations and Forms of
Resistance,
pp. 1-25. Delhi, Routledge. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00626329/document)
- 2011 "The Local Enactment of Hindutva.
Writing Stories of Local Gods in Himachal Pradesh", in
Daniela
Berti, Nicolas Jaoul & Pralay Kanungo (eds), The
Cultural Entrenchment of Hindutva. Local Mediations and Forms of
Resistance, pp. 64-90. Delhi:
Routledge. (pdf: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02173325/document)
- 2011 "Trials, Witnesses and Local Stakes in
a
District Court of Himachal Pradesh (North India)", in Johanna
Pfaff-Czarnecka & Gérard Toffin (eds), The Politics
of Belonging in
the Himalayas, pp. 290-313. New Delhi: Sage. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00647959/document)
- 2011 “Political
Patronage and Ritual Competitions at the Dashera Festival in Northern
India”, in
Christiane Brosius & Karin
Polit (eds), Ritual, Heritage and Identity. The Politics of
Culture and
Performance in a Globalised World, pp. 126-48. New Delhi:
Sage.
(pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00627913/document)
- 2010 "Hostile
Witnesses, Judicial Interactions and
Out-of-Court Narratives in a North Indian District Court", Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol.
44, 3 (October 2010): 235-63. (pdf: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00413747v3/document)
- 2009 (with G.
Tarabout) "Introduction ",
in D. Berti & G. Tarabout
(eds), Territory, Soil and Society in
the South Asia, pp. 9-38. New Delhi:
Manohar. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/308283/filename/Preprint_Introduction_Territory.pdf)
- 2009 "Divine Jurisdictions and Forms of
Government in Himachal Pradesh", in D. Berti & G. Tarabout
(eds), Territory, Soil and Society
in the South Asia, pp. 311-39. New Delhi: Manohar.
(pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00614305v2/document)
- 2009 "Kings, Gods, and Political
Leaders in
Kullu", in Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (ed.), Bards
and Mediums: History, Culture, and Politics in the Central
Himalayan Kingdoms, pp. 107-36. Almora: Almora
Book Depot. (pdf:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00613854/document)
- 2009 "Passé,
localité et
nationalismes dans la région de Kullu (Inde du Nord)", in Gisèle
Krauskopff (ed.), Les faiseurs
d'histoire : Politique de l'origine et écrits sur le passé,
pp.111-40. Nanterre: Société d'Ethnologie.
(pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00618168/document)
- 2007 "Hindu
Nationalists and Local
History: From Ideology to Local Lore", Rivista
di Studi Sudasiatici, II: 5-36. (Open access: http://www.fupress.net/index.php/rss/article/view/2462/2297)
- 2006 "Ritual Kingship, Divine
Bureaucracy,
and Electoral Politics in Kullu", in William Sax (dir.), Rituals of Divine Kingship in the Western
Himalayas, European Bulletin of Himalayan
Research, 29/30:
39-61. (pdf: http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_29&30_03.pdf)
- 2006 "The Memory of
Gods: From a secret autobiography to a nationalistic project, Indian
Folklife, 24: 15-18..
(pdf:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02334466/document
)
- 2006 " « Now
it is all politics » : Quelques discours sur
les transformations de la fête du Dasahra à Kullu (Inde du nord)",
in Gérard Colas & Gilles Tarabout (eds), Rites
hindous : transferts et transformations, pp. 305-42.
Paris
: EHESS (coll. Purusartha, 25). (pdf:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02342641/document)
- 2004 "Of
metal and clothes: The location of distinctive features in divine
iconography (Indian Himalayas)",
in Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara (eds), Images
in Asian Religions. Texts and
Contexts, pp.
85-113. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press.
(pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02357185/document)
- 2003 "La pioggia degli otto
villaggi. Giurisdizioni
divine
e
forme di governo in Himachal Pradesh (India del nord)", in Daniela Berti
& Gilles
Tarabout (eds), Terra, territorio e società nel mondo
indiano, Ethnosistemi,
10: 117-29. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02344537/document)
- 2003 (with
G. Tarabout) "Introduzione", in
Daniela Berti & Gilles Tarabout
(eds), Terra, territorio e società nel mondo indiano, Ethnosistemi,
10: 2-9. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02355037/document)
- 2001 "Gestes,
paroles et combats. Pluralité rituelle et modalités d'action en
Himalaya
indien", Annales de la Fondation Fyssen, 17,
pp.11-31. (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00614637/document)
- 1999 "Un
dieu
maître-chanteur : La résolution d'un conflit villageois dans la vallée
de Kullu
(Himachal Pradesh)", in Jackie Assayag & Gilles
Tarabout
(eds), La possession en Asie du
Sud: Parole, corps, territoire, pp. 61-97. Paris : EHESS
(coll. Purusartha,
21). (pdf: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02366650/document)
- 1998 "Una
liturgia controllata. Riti brahmanici e possessione in Himachal
Pradesh", Annali di ca' foscari,
vol. 37, n. 3:.409-37.
- 1995 "Observations on
Shamanic Dance", in Tae-gon
Kim & Mihàly Hoppàl (eds), Shamanism in
Performing Arts, pp. 63-76.
Akadémiai Kiadò: Budapest.
- 1992 "Il
karma in un villaggio dell'India del nord : Aspetti e problemi
antropologici", Studi e materiali di
storia delle religioni, 1992, vol.58:
321-53.
2-
Symposium
proceedings
- 2014
(with G. Tarabout)
« De l’Etat colonial à la mondialisation du droit. Institution
judiciaire,
gouvernement, et société en Inde ». Actes
du colloque ANR Gouverner et administrer, Paris, 13 janvier
2014, pp.44-50. (pdf of complete proceedings:
https://anr.fr/fileadmin/documents/2014/gouverner-administrer-anr-janvier-2014.pdf)
- 2007
"Interactions
et procédures judiciaires
dans un tribunal de district en Inde du nord", Proceedings of
the 3rd Symposium, Réseau Asie, Paris, Septembre 2007, 8pp.
(pdf: https://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/himalaya/pdf/BERTI%20_Reseau_Asie%202007.pdf)
3-
Dictionary's
Entries
- 2010 "Possession"
(with G. Tarabout), in R. Azria et Danièle Hervieu-Léger (eds) Dictionnaire
des faits religieux, Paris, PUF, pp.941-947. (pdf: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01677000/document)
- 2010 "Destin", in Frédéric Landy (ed.), Dictionnaire
de l'Inde contemporaine,
Paris, Armand Colin,
2010, p.152.
- 2010 "Divination",
in Frédéric Landy (ed.), Dictionnaire de l'Inde contemporaine,
Paris, Armand Colin, 2010, p.167.
- 2010 "Médium", in Frédéric Landy (ed.), Dictionnaire
de l'Inde contemporaine, Paris, Armand
Colin, 2010, pp.326-327.
- 2010 "Porter
les dieux, un jeu d'enfants", in J. Baschet (ed.), Enfants
de tous les temps, enfants de tous
les mondes, Paris, Gallimard, p.356.
4-
Conference
/
workshop
papers (last 10 years)
- 2023 “
Sacrifices d’animaux et écologie dans une affaire judiciaire en Inde”,
colloque Religions et écologies : Les problématiques environnementales au prisme de l’anthropologie du religieux.
Université Paris Cité, November 30 – December 1..
- 2023 “Devenir
vermine. Batailles judiciaires et
militantes autour des espèces déclarées nuisibles en Inde”, EFEO
Workshop : Les
relations humains/non-humains à la mesure de
l’expansion des pratiques agricoles productivistes en Inde et Asie du
Sud-Est.
Paris, EFEO, June 21.
- 2023 “Protection
animale et liberté religieuse en
Inde : le cas des sacrifices d’animaux”, 2e Atelier
Anthropologie historique de la nature :
le
droit et les non-humains : dialogue entre
Antiquité, anthropologie et droit, Nanterre,
June 8-9.
- 2022 “Connecting Tigers:
Scientific Reports and Wildlife Politics in India”, Ruling on Nature. Animals
and the Environment before the Court,
Conference RULNAT, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, June 30-July 2.
- 2022 “Tiger corridors, national
highways and wildlife politics in Uttarakhand”, Conference Figuring
the Future: Visions and Techniques in the World’s Religions, Yale, Avril 27-28.
- 2021 “A Tale of Two Battles.
Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the USA and India”, workshop RULNAT, Campus
Condorcet, Aubervilliers, December 2.
- 2019 “Predicting
Species Survival and the Future of
Wildlife in India”, Conference Figuring
the Future: Visions and Techniques in the World’s Religions, Yale, Avril 27-28.
- 2019 “Rivers and Animals as Legal Persons in
Uttarakhand’, Conference New Directions in
Himalayan Studies,
University of California at Berkeley, March 1-3.
-
2018 “Ritual
Presences and Legal Persons. Deities and the Law in India”,
International workshop Encounters with the
Invisible Revisiting Possession in the Himalayas in its Material and
Narrative
Aspects , Maçay, 18-21 décembre.
- 2018 «Gods,
Animals & Natural Resources as Legal Persons in India»,
&
“Moral Reforms
and Religious Freedom in India”, Anthropology
of Justice Lecture
Series,
Institut
für Ethnologie, Köln, December 3-4.
- 2018 “From
Animal
Protection to
Animals’ own
Rights. Arguing the ‘Rights of Non- Humans’ in Indian courts”, Panel
“Juristic
Personalities and the ‘Rights of Non-Humans': Gods, Animals and Natural
Resources as Legal Persons in South Asia”,
25e European Conference on South Asian
Studies (ECSAS), Paris, July 24-27.
- 2018 “Animals
in the Public Debate: Hunting, Conservationism and Animal Rights in
India”,
Conference Buddhist Beasts. Reflections
on Animals in Asian Religions and Culture, University of
British Columbia,
Vancouver, April 20-22.
- 2017 “Animal
Sacrifice under Judicial Scrutiny”, Conference Taking
Nature to the Courtroom in South Asia (III), University of
Edinburgh, June 15-16.
- 2017 “Sacrifice under Judicial
Scrutiny. Animal Rights, Textual Sources and Gods' Authority in India”, Conference
Entanglements
of Law and Religion in South Asia, Annual Conference of the
South Asian
Studies Council, Yale,
April 28-30.
- 2016 “Introduction” to
Taking
Nature to the Courtroom in South Asia (II), EHESS/FMSH,
Paris, March 7.
- 2015 « Moral
Reforms and Religious Freedom in India », Yale
Seminar in Religious Studies, Yale,
December 3.
- 2015 « Les
sacrifices d’animaux en
procès. Conflit de valeurs et enjeux politiques en
Inde », Panel
« Judiciariser
la Nature/ Taking Nature to the
Courtroom in Asia»,
5th Conference of GIS-Réseau Asie,
Paris, September 9-11.
- 2015 « Du
temple au tribunal.
Présentification des dieux en Inde », panel « L’interface
homme-objet dans
la présentification des puissances invisibles », 5th
Conference of GIS-Réseau Asie,
Paris, September 9-11.
- 2015 “Political Ideology and
Divine Biographies. The Impact of Hindu Nationalism on a Local Pantheon
in Himachal Pradesh”, Workshop
Religious history and its sources: a
national history of India, Leiden.
- 2015 “Questioning
the Truth. Ideals of Justice and Trial Techniques in India”, Conference
Truth, Intentionality and Evidence.
Anthropological approaches to crime and tort, Centre Jacques
Berque, Rabat,
January 29-30.
- 2014 (with
G. Tarabout) « De l’État colonial
à la mondialisation du droit. Institution judiciaire, gouvernement et
société
en Inde », Symposium ANR Gouverner
et administrer, Paris, January 13.
- 2013 “Self-made Gods
in
Northern India”, Conference Materiality
and Transcendence, Yale,
April 27-28.
- 2013 “Gods’ Rights vs
Hydroelectric Projects. Environmental Conflicts and the Judicialization
of
Nature in India”, Conference The Human
Person and Nature in Classical and
Modern
India, University La Sapienza, Rome, March 14-15.
- 2013 “Emotions under
Scrutiny. Suicide Notes
as Legal Evidence in Indian Courtrooms”, International
workshop Through the
Lens of Law : Power and
Society in
India, ANR Just-India, Paris, January 7-8.
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