Culture, history and biophysical environment
Iceland, from the curse to the blessing of geography.
Keywords:
Iceland, Ecology, History, Politics, Culture, CrisisAbstract
This article is the result of the research carried out by the author as his undergraduate dissertation. It is a transdisciplinary piece of research in which, taking integrated environmental humanities – especially history of mentalities and social anthropology – as a departure point, historical processes of the Icelandic society are to be explored from the viking settlement to the 20th century, when the logic of the country’s history took a sudden turn. In addition, as these historical and cultural inquiries are based on the cultural materialism anthropological perspective, it has been necessary to approach the biophysical environment of the land of ice in order to underpin the nature of the historical events here considered. Lastly, this article aims to be an anthropological reflection on critical times.
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