Ivaylo Ditchev Explained

Ivaylo Stefanov Ditchev (Bulgarian: Ивайло Стефанов Дичев; 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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^[3]
• I learn to cry, short stories, Sofia 1979

External links

• Personal web page

Notes and References

1. Book: Достоверная сказка: рассказы болгарских писателей . 1986 . 284 . 7 November 2023.
2. https://www.mediapool.bg/pochina-profesor-ivailo-dichev-news353056.html Почина професор Ивайло Дичев
3. Book: The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 . Segel . Harold B. . 2003 . 142–143 . Columbia University Press . 9780231114042 . registration . 20 May 2018.