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.Почина професор Ивайло Дичев
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 Gift in the Age of its Technical Reproductibility, Sofia, 1999 To Give Without Losing. Exchange in the imaginary of Modernity, Paris, 1997 (French) 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
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External links Personal web page