Millie Creighton

Recent Publications

  • Creighton, Millie 2004 Review of "The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure." by David Leheny. Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 444-446.
  • Creighton, Millie 2004 "From the Heart of Japan to the Heartbeat of Humanity: Re-Sounding Rhythms of Taiko, Traditions and Identities." in The Korean Beat: In Search of the Origins of Korean Culture. Kim Tschung-Sun and Sem Vermeersch eds, Daegu: Academia Koreana, Keimyung University, pp. 394-406.
  • Creighton, Millie 2004 Review of "The Silk Weavers of Kyot Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry" by Tamara Hareven, Journal of Japanese Studies, University of California Press, Berkeley, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 461-466.
  • Creighton, Millie 2003 "May the Saru River Flow: The Nibutani Dam and the Resurging Tide of the Ainu Identity Movement." In Japan at the Dawn of the Millennium, David Edgington (Ed.), Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 120-143.
    Creighton, Millie 2003 "Connecting with the Okinawa and San Juan Colonies, and Confronting Issues of Identity: Panamerican Nikkei Gather in Bolivia and Pass the Baton to Canada." The Bulletin/Gepp A Journal of Japanese Canadian Community, History and Culture, 45.11:13.20-21 (Nov. 2003).
  • Creighton, Millie "Socialization for Consumerism: From Infant Shopping Clubs to Young Adult Consumer Roles," in Dennis J. Dicks (ed.) Communicating with Japan: Images Past, Present and Future, pp. 79-96. Montreal:Concordia University, 1995.
  • Creighton, Millie "Creating Connected Identities Among Japanese Company Employees: Learning to be Members of Department Store Work Communities," Culture 15 (2): 47-64 1996.
  • Creighton, Millie "Marriage, Motherhood, and Career Management in a Japanese 'Counter Culture," in Re-Imaging Japanese Women. Ed. Anne E. Imamura, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 192-220, 1996.
  • Creighton, Millie "Soto Other and Uchi Others: Imaging Racial Diversity, Imagining. Homogeneous Japan." In Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity, ed. by Michael Weiner, London: Routledge, pp. 211-38, 1997. Creighton, Millie "Travelling by Choice: Visiting Japanese Canadian Internment Sites," The Bulletin/Gepp A Journal for and about the Nikkei Community, 38 (8): 22-23, 1996.
  • Creighton, Millie "Profile: Masumi Hayashi," The Bulletin: Gepp A Journal for and about the Nikkei Community (issue cover feature article), 38(9): 18-20, 1996.
  • Creighton, Millie "Children of Intermarriage: A Mother's Perspective," The Bulletin/ Gepp A Journal for and about the Nikkei Community, 39(3):15-18, 1997.
  • Review of "UBC Student Tops Annual Japanese Speech Contest," Asia Pacific Report, 19.2:4, 1995.
  • Review of "Labor's Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action," by Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Anthropology of Work Review, 16.3 and 4, 1995.
  • Review of "The Pinch Runner Memorandum" by Oe Kenzaburo. (Translated by Michiko N. Wilson and Michael K.Wilson). Pacific Affairs, 68 (4):602-04, 1995.
  • Review of "Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture," by Gary Y. Okihiro. Pacific Affairs, 68 (4):623-24, 1995. Review of "An Introduction to Japanese Tea Ritual," by Jennifer Anderson. American Ethnologist, 21 (4):991-92, 1995.
  • Review of "Wool in Japan: Structural Change in the Textile and Clothing Market." Ed. by Christopher Findlay and Motoshige Itch. Pacific Affairs, 69(1):114-15, 1996.
  • Review of "The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan," by Eiko Ikegami. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 2 (3):554-55, 1996. Review of "Writing Ground Zer Japanese Literature and Atomic Bomb," by John Whittier Treat. Pacific Affairs, 69(3): 422-23, 1996.
  • Review of "Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers," ed. by Stevan Harrell. Pacific Affairs, 69(3):404-05, 1996.
  • Review of "Gods, Guardians, and Lovers: Temple Sculptures from North India," ed. by Vishakha N. Desai and Darielle Mason. Liaison Bulletin of the Canadian Asian Studies Association (CASA), 33, October, 1996.
  • Review of "Alsatian Acts of Identity: Language Use and Language Attitudes in Alsace," by Liliane M. Vassbert. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 27(1):158-60, 1996.
  • Review of "Women, Media and Consumption in Japan," ed. by Lise Skov and Brian Moeran. Curzon Press for Journal of Japanese Studies, 23:(1):238-42, 1997.
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