| Summary: | This article aims to discuss the importance of using participatory methodologies in
research related to traditional communities. Brazil has innumerable cultural expressions, and for this
reason indigenous communities, quilombolas, peasants, fishing, among others, maintain unique sociospatial relations in their territories. Traditional hegemonic science has long made research questions
invisible through cold and partial written methodologies that did not reach the identity territory of these
communities. It starts from the experience of researches carried out in Colony Z-29, in São Pedro Village,
in Jaramataia, Alagoas, to understand how ancient knowledge and practices are used to classify, by means
of identification keys, different types of soils and their characteristics. Uses. From the observant
participation, conversation wheels were held that were potentiated with the use of the mystical technique,
seeking to know the fishing cosmologies in relation to the soils recorded in a field diary of the
geoethnographic method. It is noteworthy that the ethnopedological approach not only served to classify
soils based on traditional knowledge, but reflected the identity, collectivity and ancestry of a people who
need another academic writing as potent as their orality
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