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Kirsten Alnæs (also known as Kirsten Alnaes, born 1927) is a norwegian social anthropologist

During her academic years she spent several years living among the Konzo in Uganda, and wrote her phdt hesis about the Konzolian cosmology. She has also done a fieldstudy in [[Botswana]

Alnaes got awarded  Kirke- og undervisningsdepartementets debutantpris for her children's book Pio (1978). The book has later been translated into both Danish and Swedish.

She was married to the anthropologist Axel Sommerfelt, not to be confused with the Norwegian politician with the same name.