{{Short description|Australian cultural anthropologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Annette Hamilton | image = Australian_Anthropologist_Annette_Hamilton_2019.jpg | image_size = 180 px | alt = | caption = Annette Hamilton January 2019 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1945}} | birth_place = Sydney | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = University of Sydney | other_names = | occupation = Anthropologist & Writer | years_active = 1970-2019 | known_for = cultural anthropologist for remote Aboriginal Australia, anthropology of media in South-East Asia<ref name="ENCYL01">{{cite web |url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0575b.htm |title=Hamilton, Annette (1945– ) |last=Standish |first=Ann |date= 2014|website= The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|publisher=Australian Women's Archives Project 2014, University of Melbourne |access-date=2 March 2021|quote=}}</ref> | website = {{URL|https://annette-hamilton.com/}} }}
'''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.<ref name="ENCYL01"/>
== Career == Hamilton attended the University of Sydney where she competed her bachelors, master and PhD in cultural anthropology.<ref name="ENCYL01" />
Following graduation Hamilton worked in many remote Indigenous communities between 1968 and 1985 and appeared in a number of landmark Northern Territory Land Rights cases as anthropologist and expert witness. During this time she also published extensively in academic journals and was also a regular contributor to Arena Magazine (Australia).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Annette Hamilton |url=https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-annette-hamilton |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=research.unsw.edu.au |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-12 |title=The Voice and the End of Traditional Aboriginal Culture - Quadrant Online |url=https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/the-voice-and-the-end-of-traditional-aboriginal-culture/ |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=quadrant.org.au |language=en-AU}}</ref>
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.<ref name="ENCYL01" />
From 1983 - 2001 Hamilton taught at Macquarie University and from 2002 - 2019 at the University of New South Wales.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Annette Hamilton |url=https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-annette-hamilton |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=research.unsw.edu.au |language=en}}</ref>
Following her retirement from active University lifeamilton has been active in independent publishing and creative writing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Annette Hamilton - Writer |url=https://annette-hamilton.com/ |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=Annette Hamilton - Writer |language=en}}</ref>
== 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''.
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==External links== * [https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/annette-hamilton/ 'Professor Annette Hamilton' @ UNSW School of the Arts and Media] * [https://annette-hamilton.com/ Annette-Hamilton.com]
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