1.Analysing Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament&Shirin M.Rai 1
2.The Archi-texture of Parliament:Flaneur as Method in Westminster&Nirmal Puwar 15
3.An Anthropology of the House of Lords:Socialisation,Relationships and Rituals&Emma Crewe 30
4.The Speaker,Parliamentary Ceremonies and Power&Faith Armitage 42
5.Disrupting Rituals of Debate in the Indian Parliament&Carole Spary 55
6.Researching Ritual and the Symbolic in Parliaments:An Institutionalist Perspective&Georgina Waylen 69
7.Rules and Rituals:The Case of South Africa's New Committee System&Victoria Hasson 83
8.Pinning the Butterfly:Women,Blue-Collar and Ethnic Minority MPs vis-a-vis Parliamentary Norms and the Parliamentary Role of the Group Representative&Karen Celis and Bram Wauters 97
9.The Gendered Dimensions of Rituals,Rules and Norms in the Chilean Congress&Susan Franceschet 111
Index 125