Shfaqja e antropologjisë heroike në historinë e ideve
The emergence of heroic anthropology in the history of ideas

Summary/Abstract: This article develops Claude Lévi-Strauss’s contribution to anthropology. Lévi-Strauss transformed anthropology into a scientific project far more sophisticated than it had been deemed possible and than what the fieked had achieved before. His contribution represents the re-inclusion of this field into the core of western ideas since he managed, through his language, data, methods, techniques and rare theories, to reformulate anthropology as an intellectual project, as a profession of the intellectuals of the time, instead of simply being a specialized profile. According to Cifford Geertz, no anthropologist has insisted more than Lévi-Strauss that “the practise of his profession consists of a personal quest, directed by a personal vision that aims personal salvation.” In the form of standard prophetic myth of a heroic research with the anthropologist as its hero, according to Richard Shweder, Lévi-Strauss transformed his expedition in the virgin interior of the Amazon River into a search for a vision and turned anthropology into a spiritual mission to defend humankind against itself.

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