Violence and Aggressive Behaviour - Anthropological Perspective

I suppose that violence in urban spaces is highly connected with the establishment of interpersonal and familiar relationships and with relationships between different opinions, ethnic groups and social classes. The establishment of social relationships in Salvador is influenced by historic and current economic and racial inequalities in the population. My interlocutors find the main triggers of violent behaviour in family discrepancies, personality deviations, conflicts between neighbours and living conditions in favelas through which the resident is exposed to noise, pollution, dangerous illnesses (for example dengue fever), does not have complete intimacy and spends most of the time on the street or in hot humid places. To understand better the possible reasons for violence in Salvador and to explain the differences in beliefs about aggression and violence within capoeira, I present differences between aggression and violence presuming that two notions are not identical and conditioned.