ABSTRACT
Ethnopedology is a scientific discipline at the border of cultural anthropology and soil science which aims to study folk soil knowledge. On the one hand, it deals with the product of collective creative effort of an ethnic group; on the other hand, it studies the correspondence of indigenous soil knowledge with scientific concepts, and incorporates this knowledge in the practice of soil science. The term was proposed by Williams and Ortiz-Solorio (1981, p336), who compared the application of folk and scientific classification systems for soil mapping in Central Mexico.
