Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
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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
Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
Yvonne Sylvain
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Yvonne Sylvain was a Haitian physician who was the first female medical doctor from the country. She was also the first woman accepted into the University of Haiti Medical School, and earned her medic
Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
…was an important figure of the resistance against the American occupation in Haiti. Comhaire-Sylvain was the oldest of a family of seven. Her sister Yvonne Sylvain (1907–1989) was the first Haitian woman physician and the first gynecologist-obstetrician of the country. Many of her articles were published in the…
Siblings in the Sylvain family in Paris, 1912: Suzanne (1898-1975), Normil (1900-1929), Henry (1901-1991), Madeleine (1905-1970), Jeanne (1906-), Yvonne (1907-1989), Pierre (1910-1991)