Distant Mirrors: Understanding American Culture as a Foreigner - Cultural Study Guide for International Students & Travelers" 优化说明： 1. 修正了"Mirrors"的拼写错误 2. 增加了关键词"understanding"和"foreigner"提升SEO 3. 添加了副标题说明书籍用途 4. 明确了目标读者群体(国际学生和旅行者) 5. 保持了原标题的核心概念同时使其更具描述性 使用场景：Perfect for international students preparing to study in the US, travelers wanting cultural insights, or educators teaching about American society.

Anthropology has a long history of the "other," yet we can look right here at home for the strangeness we seek. We often neglect to ask the questions that reveal our own culture's underlying value and beliefs. In this volume, we bring the American culture into focus. For students to understand the full impact of ethnography, to experience cultural relativity and to gain a foundation to build informed comparisons, students need a firm grasp of their own culture--and need to use this volume. The Third Edition consists of 19 essays written by anthropologists and other scholars using an ethnographic perspective. The essays enable students to understand themselves better by focusing on their own culture and seeing it from a new perspective. This collection gives anthropology a comparative perspective that provides a reflective lens, a mirror, for understanding ourselves and the world in which we live.