Publications and papers relating to Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Keyna, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania. Topics include anthropology, African religion and ritual, education, the struggle for the independence of Namibia, land tenure in Botswana. Also includes publications of London-based organisations advocating majority rule in Rhodesia, 1970-1973.
Kirsten Alnaes collection
This material is held atInstitute of Commonwealth Studies Library, University of London
- Reference
- GB 101 ICS 164
- Dates of Creation
- 1962-2000
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 7 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Kirsten Alnæs is a Norwegian social anthropologist. She spent some years among the people of Bakonzo in Uganda. Her doctoral subject was cosmology. She also did field work in Botswana. For many years Kirsten Alnæs was based in London, where she was a member of the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She won the Ministry of Church Affairs and education prize for her children's book, Pio (1978), which has been translated into Danish and Swedish.
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