Manuel Delgado Ruiz

Catalan anthropologist (born 1956)

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Manuel Delgado Ruiz (b. Barcelona, 1956) is a Catalan anthropologist.

He graduated from the University of Barcelona with a degree in Art History and later obtained a doctorate in anthropology there. He continued his graduate studies at the Religious Sciences department of the École Pratique des Hautes Études 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^[1] 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 Parliament of Catalonia.^[2] 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.

Selected works

De la Muerte de un Dios: La Fiesta de los Toros en el Universo Simbólico de la Cultura Popular , Península (1986) ISBN 84-297-2457-5
La Ira Sagrada. Anticlericalismo, Iconoclastia y Antiritualismo en la España Contemporánea, Humanidades (1992) ISBN 84-604-3135-5
Las Palabras de Otro Hombre. Anticlericalismo y Misoginia, Muchnik (1993) ISBN 84-7669-181-5
El Animal Público. Hacia una Antropología de los Espacios Urbanos, Anagrama (1999) ISBN 84-339-0580-5
Elogi del Vianant, Edicions de 1984 (2005) ISBN 84-96061-45-0
Sociedades Movedizas. Pasos Hacia una Antropología de las Calles, Anagrama (2007) ISBN 84-339-6251-5
El Espacio Público como Ideología, La Catarata (2011) ISBN 84-8319-595-X

References

^ "Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia".
^ University of Barcelona, Curriculum Vitae

External links

"El Cor de los Aparences", Delgado's blog(in Spanish)
Guerrilla Comunicacional: Interview with Manuel Delgado(in Spanish)
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