In brief, the consideration of culture requires engagement in the culture and efforts to place “expert” opinion in its proper context. It is important to build a frame of reference that allows one to take on initial knowledge from experts and the literature, while placing it in a broader context that considers social, political, economic, and historical factors that may be important. Some of this can come from developing a broad set of informants and other sources of information (e.g., reading outside one’s field). Participatory research methods provide one mechanism for this and should include efforts to integrate a variety of methodologies (observation, interviewing, questionnaires). Another mechanism is for outsiders to participate in the local cultural milieu themselves and become engaged in local meeting places, markets, etc. (see, e.g., Whyte, 1984