Manuel Delgado Ruiz (b.

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, 1956) is a

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. He graduated from the

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with a degree in

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and later obtained a doctorate in anthropology there. He continued his graduate studies at the Religious Sciences department of the

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at the Sorbonne. Since 1986, he has been Professor of Religious Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at his alma mater. He was the editor of the "Biblioteca del Ciudadano" (Citizen's Library) at Ediciones Bellaterra and the "Breus Classics d'Antropologia" series at Editorial Icaria. He served as a member of the management committee for the journal ''Quaderns de l´ICA'' and currently sits on the managing board of the ''Institut Català d'Antropologia''. He is also involved in political issues, serving as speaker of the "Study Commission on Immigration" in the

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. Religious and ritual violence has been one of his particular areas of interest, as well as the apportioning of public space and the construction of collective identities in an urban context.

Activism and political militancy

Manuel Delgado has been arrested several times for his political militancy and as a social activist. During the end of the

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, he was imprisoned for three months under military custody in the Model prison in Barcelona, after being beaten. His last arrest was in 2007 during a protest against real estate speculation. He is a member of the . Activist and member of the Central Committee of

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, he participated in a symbolic place and without leaving his party on the list of the Popular Unity Candidacy - Crida Constituent in 2015.

Selected works

* ''De la Muerte de un Dios: La Fiesta de los Toros en el Universo Simbólico de la Cultura Popular '', Península (1986) * ''La Ira Sagrada. Anticlericalismo, Iconoclastia y Antiritualismo en la España Contemporánea'', Humanidades (1992) * ''Las Palabras de Otro Hombre. Anticlericalismo y Misoginia'', Muchnik (1993) * ''El Animal Público. Hacia una Antropología de los Espacios Urbanos'',

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(1999) * ''Elogi del Vianant'', Edicions de 1984 (2005) * ''Sociedades Movedizas. Pasos Hacia una Antropología de las Calles'',

(2007) * ''El Espacio Público como Ideología'', La Catarata (2011)

References

External links

"El Cor de los Aparences", Delgado's blog

MediaLab Prado: "The Common and the Collective. Public Space As a Space of and for Communication", a presentation by Delgado

"Manuel Delgado’s Urban Anthropology: From Multidimensional Space to Interdisciplinary Spatial Theory" by Benjamin Fraser. ''Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies'', Volume 11, 2007
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