Antropología de la seguridad. Seguridad, emociones y cultura

Resumo

An approach to the concept of human security is offered from the perspective of applied Anthropology. We will relate the ways in which we try to achieve security, with the beliefs, behaviours, habits and norms of the culture that supports it, as well as the negative repercussions of in-security. We start from the basis that security, whose simplest etymological meaning is "without fear of what to worry about", has clear cultural connotations since it is each culture that decides or marks, by its normalization, what we should fear. If we understand the importance of culture, as a direct agent that influences the way we think about and analyse situations, we will understand that culture can be seen as a complement to safety. We will analyse the importance of emotions in the feeling of security, especially the primary emotion "fear". From the Anthropology of emotions, we understand that security is a feeling with a very high cultural correlate, formed by the interaction between the person and the society where they live. In this study I will analyse the relationship between anxiety (or other current psychopathological problems), fear and insecurity, as well as, again, their relationship with the cultural environment and the way of thinking (that we learn culturally).