| Orange Parades: The Politics of Ritual, Tradition and Control Subjects: Parades -- Northern Ireland -- History; Orange Order -- History; Social control -- Northern Ireland; Social classes -- Northern Ireland; Nationalism -- Northern Ireland; Political customs and rites -- Northern Ireland; Northern Ireland -- Politics and gov; 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. |