Millie R Creighton
Biographic Data
| ID | 154455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Millie R Creighton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Millie R |
| FAMILY NAME | Creighton |
| SIGNATURE | CREIGHTON M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry (review)
Reviewed by: The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry Millie Creighton (bio) The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry. By Tamara K. Hareven. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. xxvii, 347 pages. $55.00, cloth; $21.95, paper. The profound value of The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry can largely be attributed to Tamara Har…
Imaging the Other in Japanese Advertising Campaigns
Against a white misty background a white woman stands in a rounded doorway; her long blondish-white hair is drawn to one side thus half circling her head in curls. A white cloth is draped around her body from the waist down. Naked from the waist up, her arms lie across her breasts thus concealing the nipples, while still revealing the majority of breasts and skin. This was the focal image of an ad prominently displayed inside Tokyo commuter train…
Japanese craft tourism
Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan
Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
The Fiction of Tokuda Shusei and the Emergence of Japan's New Middle Class
Postwar Japan as History
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
An Introduction to Japanese Tea Ritual . Jennifer L. Anderson
The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image & Changing Reality
Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language
School to Work Transition in Japan: An Ethnographic Study
Part 1 Previous studies: transition from school to work studies on Japanese education reproduction and production through schooling summary. Part 2 Methods: ways of knowing - the ethnographic method the fieldwork process methods of data analysis summary. Part 3 The two schools: Saki-city the students - Sasaki High School, Imai Technical High School summary. Part 4 Teachers practising the job referral process: phase 1 - groundwork by school and em…
The Impoverished Spirit in Contemporary Japan: Selected Essays of Honda Katsuichi
Matsuri: Festivals of a Japanese Town
A study of the importance of festivals in Japanese society which also contains a bilingual glossary
"Edutaining" Children: Consumer and Gender Socialization in Japanese Marketing
A common Japanese expression asserts, ko wa takara, (children are treasures). Japan's earliest poetry anthology, the Manyoshu, compiled in A.D. 753, expresses the sentiment as, treasure which excels everything else, could there be anything equal to (Kojima 1986:123-24). In present day Japan, the perception of children as treasures often implies indulging them with unprecedented consumer offerings. A spokesperson for a company that designs child-o…
Sweet Love’ and Women's Place: Valentine's Day, Japan Style
Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan. Ikuya Sato
Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan
Jinsei Annai: "Life's Guide" Glimpses of Japan Through a Popular Advice Column
Maintaining Cultural Boundaries in Retailing: How Japanese Department Stores Domesticate 'Things Foreign
This essay explores the division between 'things Japanese' and 'things foreign' in contemporary Japanese life through an analysis of modern retailing. Japanese department stores domesticate 'foreign things', including customs, holidays, goods, and people, by creating for these meaning consistent with the existing fabric of Japanese culture. Their role in gift-exchanges, in the adoption of foreign holidays and in establishing special advocacy cent…
Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective
Revisiting Shame and Guilt Cultures: A Forty-Year Pilgrimage
Modern Japan through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal. Walter EDWARDS
Neighbourhood Tokyo
Revisiting Shame and Guilt Cultures: A Forty-Year Pilgrimage
Maintaining Cultural Boundaries in Retailing: How Japanese Department Stores Domesticate 'Things Foreign
This essay explores the division between 'things Japanese' and 'things foreign' in contemporary Japanese life through an analysis of modern retailing. Japanese department stores domesticate 'foreign things', including customs, holidays, goods, and people, by creating for these meaning consistent with the existing fabric of Japanese culture. Their role in gift-exchanges, in the adoption of foreign holidays and in establishing special advocacy cent…
Sweet Love’ and Women's Place: Valentine's Day, Japan Style
Japanese craft tourism
"Edutaining" Children: Consumer and Gender Socialization in Japanese Marketing
A common Japanese expression asserts, ko wa takara, (children are treasures). Japan's earliest poetry anthology, the Manyoshu, compiled in A.D. 753, expresses the sentiment as, treasure which excels everything else, could there be anything equal to (Kojima 1986:123-24). In present day Japan, the perception of children as treasures often implies indulging them with unprecedented consumer offerings. A spokesperson for a company that designs child-o…
Revisiting Shame and Guilt Cultures: A Forty-Year Pilgrimage
Modern Japan through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal. Walter EDWARDS
Neighbourhood Tokyo
Maintaining Cultural Boundaries in Retailing: How Japanese Department Stores Domesticate 'Things Foreign
This essay explores the division between 'things Japanese' and 'things foreign' in contemporary Japanese life through an analysis of modern retailing. Japanese department stores domesticate 'foreign things', including customs, holidays, goods, and people, by creating for these meaning consistent with the existing fabric of Japanese culture. Their role in gift-exchanges, in the adoption of foreign holidays and in establishing special advocacy cent…
Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective
Jinsei Annai: "Life's Guide" Glimpses of Japan Through a Popular Advice Column
Sweet Love’ and Women's Place: Valentine's Day, Japan Style
Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan. Ikuya Sato
Social Mobility in Contemporary Japan
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
An Introduction to Japanese Tea Ritual . Jennifer L. Anderson
The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image & Changing Reality
Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language
School to Work Transition in Japan: An Ethnographic Study
Part 1 Previous studies: transition from school to work studies on Japanese education reproduction and production through schooling summary. Part 2 Methods: ways of knowing - the ethnographic method the fieldwork process methods of data analysis summary. Part 3 The two schools: Saki-city the students - Sasaki High School, Imai Technical High School summary. Part 4 Teachers practising the job referral process: phase 1 - groundwork by school and em…
The Impoverished Spirit in Contemporary Japan: Selected Essays of Honda Katsuichi
Matsuri: Festivals of a Japanese Town
A study of the importance of festivals in Japanese society which also contains a bilingual glossary
"Edutaining" Children: Consumer and Gender Socialization in Japanese Marketing
A common Japanese expression asserts, ko wa takara, (children are treasures). Japan's earliest poetry anthology, the Manyoshu, compiled in A.D. 753, expresses the sentiment as, treasure which excels everything else, could there be anything equal to (Kojima 1986:123-24). In present day Japan, the perception of children as treasures often implies indulging them with unprecedented consumer offerings. A spokesperson for a company that designs child-o…
Imaging the Other in Japanese Advertising Campaigns
Against a white misty background a white woman stands in a rounded doorway; her long blondish-white hair is drawn to one side thus half circling her head in curls. A white cloth is draped around her body from the waist down. Naked from the waist up, her arms lie across her breasts thus concealing the nipples, while still revealing the majority of breasts and skin. This was the focal image of an ad prominently displayed inside Tokyo commuter train…
Japanese craft tourism
Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan
Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
The Fiction of Tokuda Shusei and the Emergence of Japan's New Middle Class
Postwar Japan as History
The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry (review)
Reviewed by: The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry Millie Creighton (bio) The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry. By Tamara K. Hareven. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. xxvii, 347 pages. $55.00, cloth; $21.95, paper. The profound value of The Silk Weavers of Kyoto: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry can largely be attributed to Tamara Har…
Sociology (16 works) · Japanese History and Culture (14 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)