Claim: Ethnomycology depends primarily on philology, and one of the major debates among ethnomycologists is how structural Linguistics may impact the information systems field.
Evidence: Besides mycological determination in the field, ethnomycology depends to a large extent on anthropology and philology. One of the major debates among ethnomycologists is Wasson's theory that the Soma mentioned in the Rigveda of the Indo-Aryans was the Amanita muscaria mushroom.