Violence and Aggressive Behaviour - Anthropological Perspective
Origins of aggression and violence, latent and explicit forms of aggression and violence, definitions.
14. Footnotes
[1] Aggression is any form of behaviour directed toward the goal of harming another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment (Baron & Richardson, 1994, p. 5).
[2] Intimidation in this context can be understood in two ways; firstly as fear induced by the media, where films, the news and documentaries construct ideas about the happenings in psychiatric hospitals. Amongst the general public an image about institutions and consequences of breaking institutional rules are created. Secondly, the patients in hospitals perceive that emotional outbreaks are controlled with injections or even with electro-shocks.
[3] The members of society who are not allowed to express aggression or perform violence, due to some special social function.
[4] Cain and Abel are Adam and Eve's sons. The parents were expelled from paradise after eating from the tree of knowledge.
[5] Cronos is the son of Uran in Gea, creators of the universe.
[6] Papa – father-sky and Rangi – mother-earth were developed through time from the eternal emptiness Po, yet before they were separated, they represented an amorphic, heavy, and suffocating form that was repressing their children.
[7] Son of Papa and Rangi, god of forests and birds.
[8] Son of Papa and Rangi, god of man, wars and martial arts.
[9] I have already argued that a sportsman is not necessarily supposed to be violent and his aggression is not aimed to harm others - only in the case of martial arts. And even in these, like in other sports, the main aim of aggression is to win or achieve a good result.
[10] Insidious play where one of the players decides to attack and harm the other out of jealousy, offence or fear.
[11] Here good male qualities are understood as in accordance with norms, rules and acting of men in a certain society.
[12] Lashlie describes good male qualities on pages 215 - 217.