Building an Inclusive Big Tent for Methods: Invitation to a Community of Practice Where the Methods Belong to All of Us

Creating a Community of Practice has been central to the vision of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP). The CAMP Community of Practice explores the practices of doing research and teaching research methods, drawing on the great diversity of methods used by anthropologists who collect and analyze cultural data. The methodological diversity now represented in CAMP reflects exciting developments in our discipline, but it also poses challenges for forging shared definitions and visions for research methods training. Here we reflect on the lessons we've learned from building the CAMP Community of Practice—lessons that we hope will be useful for communities of practice in applied anthropology.