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Ivaylo Stefanov Ditchev (; 28 March 1955 – 6 November 2023) was a Bulgarian
anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...
. He was a professor of
cultural anthropology Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The term ...
at
Sofia University Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" () is a public university, public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution of higher education in Bulgaria. Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constr ...
. He also taught abroad, mainly in
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and the
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.


Biography

Ivaylo Ditchev was born on 28 March 1955. He held a
doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...
from Sofia and Paris-7 universities. He focused on
political culture Political culture describes how culture impacts politics. Every political system is embedded in a particular political culture. Political culture is what the people, the voters, the electorates believe and do based on their understanding of the ...
and
urban anthropology Urban anthropology is a subset of anthropology concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, urban space, social relations, and neoliberalism. The field has become consolidated in the 1960s and 1970s. Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that t ...
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, 200

* ''Gift in the Age of its Technical Reproductibility'', Sofia, 1999 * ''To Give Without Losing. Exchange in the imaginary of Modernity,'' Paris, 1997 (Frenc

* ''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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