1- Peer Reviewed Articles & Chapters

• 2025 "Captivités contestées. Les éléphants de temple en Inde”, Terrain 83 [sp:ecial issue Animal culte , Pierre-Olivier Dittmar & Vanessa Manceron (eds)].


• 2025 (with Vanessa Manceron & Sandrine Revet) “Introduction: In the name of nature: Activists, experts, and the law,” Civilisations 73 (2024): 5-12. (pdf: https://journals.openedition.org/civilisations/8371).


• 2025 "Connecting tigers. Wildlife corridors and national highways in India,” Civilisations 73 (2024): 89-104. (pdf: https://hal.science/hal-05469322v1).


• 2024 "Gods and Rivers as Legal Persons in India," in Marie Lecomte-Tilouine & Anne de Sales (eds), Encounters with the Invisible. Revisiting Spirit Possession in the Himalayas , pp. 211-227. London & New York: Routledge. >>see pdf


• 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).


• 2023 (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: https://hal.science/hal-02334464)


• 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)

• 2025  (avec Ritwick Dutta) “High voltage lines and the future of an iconic bird in India”, RULNAT Workshop Of Species and Guardians. Protection Within the Law and Beyond.. MNHN, Paris, May 19-20..


• 2024 “ “Animals as legal persons: the circulation of an idea between the USA and India””,  Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, April 2..


• 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”, 2^e 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.