Dolls were produced in different styles, wearing different clothes, and with subtle variations (mostly in painting) that individualize and particularize each.
It's a world where human rights are translated into highly particularized notions of honor and revenge where my freedom depends on my right to take yours away.
Criticism focussed mainly on the model's lacking abilities to explain rather than describe, to generalize rather than particularize and to understand change in societies.
They migrate to new places and particularize, whereupon languages mutate, costumes and conventions elaborate, aesthetic symbols take on fresh meanings.