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Wikipedia / Ivaylo Ditchev

Ivaylo Stefanov Ditchev (; 28 March 1955 – 6 November 2023) was a Bulgarian anthropologist. He was a professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University. He also taught abroad, mainly in France and the United States.

Biography

Ivaylo Ditchev was born on 28 March 1955. He held a doctorate from Sofia and Paris-7 universities. He focused on political culture and urban anthropology of Southeast Europe and the Balkans. Ditchev died on 6 November 2023, at the age of 68.

Works

  • Cultural scenes of the political Sofia, Prosveta, 2019

  • Culture as distance. 11 essays in cultural anthropology. Sofia University, 2016

  • Citizens beyond places? New mobilities, new borders, new forms of belonging, Prosveta, 2009 (Bulgarian)

  • Spaces of Desire, Desire of Spaces. Studies in Urban Anthropology, Sofia, 2005

  • Form belonging to identity. Politics of the image, Sofia, 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20070927010424/http://ivayloditchev.cult.bg/texts/Ot_prinadlejnost.pdf

  • Gift in the Age of its Technical Reproductibility, Sofia, 1999

  • To Give Without Losing. Exchange in the imaginary of Modernity, Paris, 1997

(French)https://web.archive.org/web/20070929110732/http://ivayloditchev.cult.bg/texts/DonnerSansPerdre.pdf

  • Albania-Utopia. Behind Closed Doors in the Balkans, (author, editor) Paris, 1996 (French)

  • Eroticism of authorship, Sofia, 1991

  • Literalisms, miniatures, Sofia 1991

  • Borders between me and me, essays, Sofia 1990

  • A second after the end of the world, short stories, Sofia, 1988

  • Identification, novel, Sofia, 1987

  • Astral Calendar, short stories, Sofia 1982

  • I learn to cry, short stories, Sofia 1979

References