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New Histories for the Age of Speed: The Archaeological–Architectural Past in Interwar Afghanistan and Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Nile Green
Nile Green*
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Abstract

By conceiving two emergent nation-states as a single region linked by conjoining roads, shared technologies and circulating researchers, this essay traces the emergence of a common “intellectual infrastructure” that during the interwar decades enabled European, American, Iranian, Afghan and Indian scholars to promote archeological and architectural interpretations of the Iranian and Afghan past. Taking Robert Byron’s Road to Oxiana as a fixed point of reference, the following pages survey the motor-linked sites where these new disciplinary approaches were developed and disseminated. By positioning Byron amid a larger cadre of investigators publishing in Farsi, Dari and Urdu no less than English, French and German, the essay shows how shifts in Iranian perceptions of the ancient and medieval past were part of a larger regional development, unfolding not only in familiar dialogue with Europe, but also in conversation and to some degree competition with nationalist scholarship in Afghanistan and India. Together with the journals, museums, learned societies and congresses which were launched in the 1920s and 1930s, cars and cameras—those key tools of the “age of speed”—were central to these learned ventures. Far from generating uniformity, this shared intellectual infrastructure enabled multiple interpretations of the archaeological and architectural past that were nonetheless mutually intelligible and methodologically consistent.

Keywords

Art HistoryTransnationalismInfrastructureIntellectual HistoryArchaeologyPhotography
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Art and Art History
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Iranian Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 3-4 , July 2021 , pp. 349 - 397
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2021

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Footnotes

His edited books include Afghan History through Afghan Eyes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

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