Comhaire-Sylvain, Suzanne
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sv03Making a living in the Marbial Valley, Haiti
Making a living in the Marbial Valley, HaitiBook 1951
- Summary
- 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. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1898-11-06 [2][4]
- Birth Place
- Port-au-Prince [2][4]
- Died
- 1975-06-20 [2][4]
- Death Place
- Nsukka [2]
- Country
- Haiti [4]
- Language
- French [5]
- Occupation
- writer [2]
- anthropologist [2]
- Educated at
- University of Paris [2]
- University of London [2]
- University of Oxford [2]
- Country of Education
- France [2]
- United Kingdom [2]
- Archives at
- Stanford University Libraries Department of Special Collections and University Archives [2]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [2]
- Sources
- 1. Library of Congress
- 2. Wikidata
- 3. VIAF
- 4. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 5. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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