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After making it through the wonderful and evocative preface & introduction in my last session and thoroughly enjoying carnival in Cologne afterwards, I was now ready to delve into the first chapter: "Weight of Numbers". What a way to start this book, but made easier by having frequent sub-chapter breaks to give it breathing room. (con’d)

"Through little details, travellers' notes, a society stands revealed. The ways people eat, dress, or lodge, at the different levels of that society, are never a matter of indifference. And these snapshots can also point out contrasts and disparities between one society and another which are not all superficial. It is fascinating, and I do not think pointless to try and reassemble these imageries." agreeed.