Database of Dreams

The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, History, Health & Well Being, Psychology
Cover of the book Database of Dreams by Rebecca Lemov, Yale University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Rebecca Lemov ISBN: 9780300216646
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: November 24, 2015
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Rebecca Lemov
ISBN: 9780300216646
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: November 24, 2015
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English
Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects among remote and largely non-literate peoples around the globe. Recording their dreams, stories, and innermost thoughts in a vast database, Kaplan envisioned future researchers accessing the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. Almost immediately, however, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and eventually it was forgotten.
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific protocols. Kaplan, along with anthropologist A. I. Hallowell and a team of researchers, sought out a varied range of non-European subjects among remote and largely non-literate peoples around the globe. Recording their dreams, stories, and innermost thoughts in a vast database, Kaplan envisioned future researchers accessing the data through the cutting-edge Readex machine. Almost immediately, however, technological developments and the obsolescence of the theoretical framework rendered the project irrelevant, and eventually it was forgotten.

More books from Yale University Press

Cover of the book The Anthology of Rap by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability: Redefining Our Relationship with Nature by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book Fuenteovejuna by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book Our Senses by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book One World Now by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book The Soviet Theater by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book Faust by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book What Art Is by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book Putin v. the People by Rebecca Lemov
Cover of the book The Making of the English Gardener: Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660 by Rebecca Lemov
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy