Chris Arnett

PhD Student

Email: arnettc(at)interchange.ubc.ca

Supervisors: Dr. Andrew Martindale, Dr. Bruce Miller, Dr. Michael Blake

Research Interests:
Indigenous Theory, Historical Anthropology, Salishan Rock Art, Ethnohistory, Ethnography, Urban Archaeology, Microhistory, Pacific Northwest Colonization, Battlefield Archaeology

Current Research:
My PhD dissertation is a spatial and temporal analysis of post-
Columbian Salishan Rock Painting (pictographs) using an interdisciplinary approach (historical anthropology) to consider archaeological site formation processes in terms of historically contingent material and non material variables to foreground Indigenous theory and critique iconocentric ahistorical approaches.

Publications:
Arnett, Chris, ed.
2007 Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral traditions of the Hul’qumi’num’ Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island by Beryl Mildred Cryer. Vancouver: Talonbooks.

Arnett, Chris
2007 Review of “Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast by Judith Williams. In Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 15, No.1, January/February 2007. Toronto

2001 Review of “Glyphs and Gallows: The Rock Art of Clo-oose and the Wreck of
the John Bight” by Peter Johnson. In BC Studies, No. 130, Summer 2001, Vancouver

1999 The Terror of the Coast: Land Alienation and Colonial War on Vancouver
Island and the Gulf Islands, 1849-1863. Vancouver: Talonbooks

Arnett, Chris and Maywell Wickheim
1989 4000 Years: A History of the Rainforest, on the Southwest Coast of Vancouver Island. Sooke: Sooke Region Museum and Archives

York, Annie Z., Richard Daly and Chris Arnett
1993 They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever: Rock Writings of the Stein
River Valley British Columbia. Vancouver: Talonbooks

Memberships:
Archaeological Society of British Columbia
Society of American Archaeology
Salt Spring Island Archives