Personality · Literature
Writer · Anthropologist
📍 Birthplace Port-au-Prince
November 6, 1898 – June 20, 1975
Haiti
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Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain was the first woman Haitian anthropologist. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain was a student of Bronisław Malinowski who worked in 1949 with Alfred Métraux, and participated in a UNESCO project in Haiti. She married Jean Comhaire, a Belgian who headed the Anthropology Department of University of Nsukka. Subsequently, she worked in Africa.
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- Birthplace
- Port-au-Prince
- Languages
- French
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