Ivaylo Ditchev () is a Bulgarian anthropologist. He is the professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University. He has also taught abroad, mainly in France and the United States. Ditchev holds a doctorate from Sofia and Paris-7 universities. He focuses on political culture and urban anthropology of Southeast Europe and the Balkans. 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 References External links Personal web page Living people 1955 births Bulgarian anthropologists Bulgarian sociologists Bulgarian journalists Sofia University alumni Academic staff of Sofia University