Towards a theoretical and anthropological reflection of violence : thinking of El Salvador

Abstract

Socio-anthropological and psychological studies affirm that the phenomenon of violence is the result of social upheavals and that its causes are found in what could be called bad social formations that have occurred throughout history. But feeding talk about violence and its origins in the framework of anthropology must begin by recognizing the great diversity and heterogeneity of theories that range from reductionists, who explain violence as something innate, to the social theories that conceive violence as something acquired
Theories that consider violence as innate and natural, have been proposed by researchers belonging to different disciplines: anthropologists, ethologists, physiologists, historians and philosophers. In the field of acquired violence, we also find a great diversity of specialists, although, logically, sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists are the most prevalent.