No. 10 (2020): The various senses of violence

This issue of Diario de Campo is preceded by the "Permanent Seminar on Interdisciplinary Views of Violence" of the Physical Anthropology Department of INAH, which brought together researchers from different disciplines and institutions interested in discussing the broad problem of violence. Violence is not biologically determined, rather, it originates in the ways in which we establish social relationships, in the hierarchies with which human diversity is classified and from which asymmetries are generated by a set of mechanisms such as prejudice, stigma, discrimination, exclusion, indifference, among others, which structure and reproduce power relations in the family, work, educational and institutional spheres. For this reason, from an anthropological perspective, naming violence must be done in the plural, contemplating the particular historical and sociocultural context, to account for the various meanings and expressions –visible or symbolic– of violence, which are inscribed in the bodies, in life experiences and identities.