Annette Hamilton

Annette Hamilton (born 1945) is a leading Australian born and based cultural anthropologist and senior fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society who first undertook significant fieldwork, appeared as an expert in land rights claims, and published on Aboriginal Australian peoples of the Northern Territory plus remote South Australia (within the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands), later specializing and becoming a key practitioner lecturing and publishing on the visual anthropology of media in Southeast Asia.

In 1985 Hamilton's research interestes shifted and include visual anthropology of media in Southeast Asia and much of her work has been on cinema in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Following her retirement from active University lifeamilton has been active in independent publishing and creative writing.

Select publications

Hamilton, Annette (1970). Socio-cultural factors in health among the Pitjantjatjara. Government Printer, South Australia Hamilton, Annette (1979). Timeless transformation : women, men and history in the Australian Western Desert. Sydney University Hamilton, Annette (1981). Nature and nurture : child rearing in North-Central Arnhem Land.