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VILLAGOMEZ RESENDIZ, Radamés. Materials And Artifacts As Affordances. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.34, pp.251-264. ISSN 1850-0013.

Even if the ecology of materials relies on the concept of affordances to explain a culture without objectivizing it as a mental phenomenon, a model of cultural evolution based on affordances requires taking the structures that support the learning and technological culture processes seriously. This paper focuses on two problems related to the ecology of materials: affordances’ standardization and the history of techniques. If affordances are considered functions, and if we accept that this would mean implementing techniques and skills (for example, some sort of standardization based on the history of how it developed), then the perception of affordances will depend not only on the display of but rather the training in techniques and skills dependent on certain devices other than the materials, namely: artifacts or deliverables. The perspective of technology anthropology puts forth the processing concept of function as a mediator between materials and artifacts.

Palabras clave : Affordances; Standardization; Historicity; Artifacts.

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