Nancy Dupree

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Dupree at an event in the National Museum in Kabul (2012)

Nancy Hatch Dupree (born October 3, 1927 in Travancore , now Kerala , India , † September 10, 2017 in Kabul , Afghanistan ) was an American historian and archaeologist . From 2006 to 2011 she was director of the “Afghanistan Center” at the University of Kabul in Afghanistan.

Life

Dupree was born in 1927 to American parents in Kerala, India, and grew up in Costa Rica and Mexico . The father worked there as a development worker. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University with bachelor's and master's degrees in sinology .

Dupree first came to Afghanistan in 1962 as the wife of a diplomat. A few years later she met the anthropologist Louis Dupree , who was an archaeologist doing research on Afghan culture and history. The two fell in love and married in 1966 after Nancy's divorce. For the next 16 years, the couple traveled through Afghanistan, participated in excavations, collected artifacts and documented sites.

After the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan , Nancy Dupree had to leave the country, Louis Dupree stayed. But Dupree did not go back to the United States. She lived in a refugee camp in Peshawar , Pakistan . After Louis Dupree was suspected of being a spy for the CIA , he too left the country and came to Nancy in Peshawar.

In Pakistan, Nancy Dupree founded the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) as a coordinating agency for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. In the refugee camp, however, she also became aware that the country's cultural heritage was threatened by the war in Afghanistan. She decided to save as much as possible and pass it on to the next generation. Documents and books in particular were threatened as they were used as fuel or for wrapping food. The Duprees began collecting government documents as well as non-governmental documents that had something to do with the history and culture of the country. Louis Dupree died in 1989 just a month after Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan.

Even after the US-led intervention in the fall of 2001 , Dupree did not return to Afghanistan immediately. The ACBAR collection now comprised 7,739 titles. It was not until 2005 that Dupree returned to Afghanistan and tried to find a place for the collection with the government. The books and documents went to the University of Kabul and were combined in the Afghan Collection at Kabul University . In 2012, a new building was built for $ 2 million. The collection now includes more than 100,000 exhibits.

Most recently Dupree lived in Afghanistan and North Carolina .

Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree Foundation

In 2007, Nancy Hatch Dupree founded the Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree Foundation . The non-profit foundation supports scientific work in the field of culture and religion in Afghanistan. The organization also protects Afghan cultural assets and safeguards the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University.

Fonts (selection)

  • An Historical Guide to Kabul
  • A Guide to the National Museum
  • The road to Balkh . ATO, Kabul 1967
  • History and Geography of Central Asia . Susil Gupta, Buckhurst Hill 1972
  • A Historical Guide to Afghanistan . Susil Gupta, Buckhurst Hill 1972
  • Afghanistan . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1973
  • with Louis Dupree, A. A, Motamedi, Ann Dupree: The National Museum of Afghanistan: an illustrated guide . Afghan Air Authority, Kabul 1974
  • Kabul City . Afghanistan Council of the Asia Society, New York 1975
  • An historical guide to Afghanistan . Afghan Air Authority, Kabul 1977
  • Mohana Lāla: Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul 1 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1978
  • with Fahima Rahimi: Women in Afghanistan . (= Series of publications of the Bibliotheca Afghanica Foundation, Volume 5), Bibliotheca Afghanica Foundation, Liestal 1986
  • Women in Afghanistan. A preliminary needs assessment . United Nations Development Fund for Women, New York 1989
  • Seclusion or service: will women have a role in the future of Afghanistan? . Afghanistan Forum, New York 1989
  • The women of Afghanistan . Office of the UN Coordinator, 1998
  • Status of Afghanistan's cultural heritage . Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage, Peshawar 1998
  • The valley of Bamiyan . Abdul Hafiz Ashna, Peshawar 2002
  • with Markus Håkansson: Afghanistan over a cup of tea: 46 chronicles . Swedish committee for Afghanistan, Stockholm 2008
  • with Seamus Murphy, Anthony Loyd: A darkness visible Saqi, London 2008
  • Feminism in Afghanistan: Taliban treatment of women, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, Shia Family Law, gender roles in Afghanistan, prostitution in Afghanistan, polygamy in Afghanistan . Books LLC, Memphis 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2SQ3-8LM
  2. ^ William Dalrymple: I Think I'll Just Finish My Chips . In: Newsweek Pakistan, April 5, 2013
  3. ↑ Nancy Hatch Dupree, Scholar of Afghanistan, Is Dead at 89 , nytimes.com, September 10, 2017, accessed September 11, 2017
  4. ↑ Celesinte Bohlen: A Love Affair With Afghanistan Continues at 74; Her Guidebook Inspired a Play, And She Fights for a Nation's Soul , New York Times, July 9, 2002
  5. ↑ Emma Graham Harrison: From Kabul love affair to Afghanistan's first center for study of its history , The Guardian , March 26, 2013
  6. ↑ a b c Laila Hussein Moustafa: From Peshawar to Kabul: Preserving Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage during Wartime , RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2016, pp. 134–147
  7. ↑ The ACKU , Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree Foundation, accessed February 21, 2017
  8. ↑ American woman, 87, called the 'grandmother of Afghanistan' seeks to preserve country's storied past with research center , Daily Mail, December 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Dupree, Nancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dupree, Nancy Hatch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Travancore , now Kerala , India
DATE OF DEATH 10th September 2017
Place of death Kabul , Afghanistan