Cheryl Yin gives presentation for Center for Khmer Studies
Yin is assistant professor of anthropology at Carleton.
Cheryl Yin, assistant professor of anthropology, gave a presentation titled, “’Why is God Angry?’: Debates Surrounding the Expansion of Moral Concern in Cambodian Christian Settings” for the Center for Khmer Studies. Khmer (Cambodian) has honorifics built into the language; Yin shared data from one chapter that asks how God should speak to people on earth and showed how attitudes about social hierarchy and linguistic respect has changed in the last century, prompting newer Bible translations to make God sound nicer and more polite.