The Wake Forest University Department of Anthropology promotes understanding and appreciation of human cultural and biological diversity. Through academic courses, scholarly and applied research, and public service, the Department of Anthropology provides the Wake Forest community with the tools and knowledge necessary for global citizenship. Composed of scholars representing all sub-fields of anthropology, the Department of Anthropology serves as the premier academic and practical resource for multicultural awareness and education in the University and Winston-Salem communities, enhancing the University’s commitment to Pro Humanitate.
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Free cookies and lemonade tomorrow! All that and a wonderful talk at Dr. Taylor Callaway’s Lunch and Learn at noon. We’ll hope you’ll join us then!
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Recent book publication from our department!
Dr. Margaret Bender’s latest book, The New Voice of God, explores the powerful intersection of language, worldview, and translation in the history of the Cherokee Bible. This work highlights how linguistic and cultural exchange reshapes meaning in profound ways—an essential insight for anthropology today.
The New Voice of God
Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible
by Margaret Bender and Thomas N. Belt
“For Christian European missionaries among the Cherokees at the turn of the eighteenth century, translating the Bible meant wrestling with the extreme structural differences between Cherokee and English. The New Voice of God reveals how these linguistic differences encoded basic predispositions and orientations toward the physical, spiritual, and social worlds—and how their translation in turn encodes the profound linguistic and cultural exchange manifested in the making of the Cherokee Bible. While the introduction of Christianity shaped Cherokee communicative practices and culture, the Cherokee language also reshaped the Bible to reflect a definitive Native worldview.”
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