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In the first major study of the Protestant Loyalist Orange Order in Northern Ireland, Dominic Bryan provides a detailed ethnographic and historical study of Orange Order parades. He looks at the development of the parades, the history of disputes over the parades, the structure and politics of the Orange Order, the organisation of loyalist bands, the role of social class in Unionist politics - and the anthropology of ritual itself.
Synopsis
In the first major study of the Protestant Loyalist Orange Order, Dominic Bryan provides a detailed ethnographic and historical study of Orange Order parades.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-196) and index.
About the Author
Ron Keith is Professor of China Studies, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia. He is the author of China as a Rising World Power and its Response to Globalization (2005), The Diplomacy of Zhou Enlai (1989) and (with Zhiqiu Lin) New Crime in China: Public Order and Human Rights (2006).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Maps
1. Drumcree: An Introduction to Parade Disputes
2. Northern Ireland: Ethnicity Politics and Ritual
3. Appropriating William and Inventing the Twelfth
4. Parading 'Respectable' Politics
5. Rituals of State
6. 'You Can March - Can Others?'
7. The Orange and other Loyal Orders
8. The Marching Season
9. The Twelfth
10. 'Tradition', Control and Resistance
11. Return To Drumcree
Appendix 1 The number of parades in Northern Ireland according