Database of Dreams
The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
1st Edition
Published on 24. November 2015
369 pages
978-0-300-21664-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 Paperwork of the Inner Self
- CHAPTER 2 The Varieties of Not Belonging
- CHAPTER 3 The Storage of the Very, Very Small
- CHAPTER 4 Data Mining in Zuni
- CHAPTER 5 Possible Future Worlds
- CHAPTER 6 The Double Experiment
- CHAPTER 7 "I Do Not Want Secrets. . . . I Only Want Your Dreams"
- CHAPTER 8 Not Fade Away (A History of the Life History)
- CHAPTER 9 New Encyclopedias Will Arise
- CHAPTER 10 Brief Golden Age
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Index
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