Style, Society, and Person integrates the diverse current
and past understandings of the causes of style in material culture. It
comprehensively surveys the many factors that cause style; reviews
theories that address these factors; builds and tests a unifying
framework for integrating the theories; and illustrates the framework
with detailed analyses of archaeological and ethnographic data
ranging from simple to complex societies. Archaeologists,
sociocultural anthropologists, and educators will appreciate the
unique unifying approach this book takes to developing style theory.