Ivaylo Ditchev
Ivaylo Stefanov Ditchev 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, 2016Citizens beyond places? New mobilities, new borders, new forms of belonging, Prosveta, 2009 Spaces of Desire, Desire of Spaces. Studies in Urban Anthropology, Sofia, 2005Form belonging to identity. Politics of the image, Sofia, 2002 Gift in the Age of its Technical Reproductibility, Sofia, 1999To Give Without Losing. Exchange in the imaginary of Modernity, Paris, 1997Albania-Utopia. Behind Closed Doors in the Balkans, Paris, 1996 Eroticism of authorship, Sofia, 1991Literalisms, miniatures, Sofia 1991Borders between me and me, essays, Sofia 1990A second after the end of the world, short stories, Sofia, 1988Identification, novel, Sofia, 1987Astral Calendar, short stories, Sofia 1982I learn to cry, short stories, Sofia 1979