by Glenn Dixon
Islam, 16, 18, 25, 27, 154
Israel, 17, 23–26
Istanbul, 40, 79–83, 89
Italian, 54, 57–59, 61,
156, 194, 282
Italy, 51, 53, 57, 61
Ithaca, 52
Jaguars, 12, 228, 255,
257, 262–64, 267
Japan, 149, 164–66
Japanese, 54, 85, 164–66,
177, 194, 222, 320
Java, 152, 153, 156, 157,
161
Jayavarman VII,
138–39
Jerusalem, 11–29, 69,
255
Jiang Zemin, 122
Jivaro, 218
Jokhang, 120–21
Jones, Sir William, 36
Jung, Carl, 131, 261
Jungle, 12, 32, 124, 127,
132, 134, 139, 155,
195, 197, 215, 216,
217, 219, 221, 222,
223, 224, 227, 239,
243, 248, 249, 251,
254, 255, 261, 262,
263, 264, 265, 308
Kailash, Mount, 109
Kalahari Desert, 40
Kantar Suzuki, Prime
Minister, 165–66
Kapawi River, 217, 224,
227, 238
Kathmandu, 97–101,
113
Khan, Genghis, 86,
90, 96
Khan, Kublai, 86
Khmer, 124, 126, 127,
133, 135, 137–39
Khmer Rouge, 125–26,
141–43
Khyber Pass, 329
Killing Fields, 125
Knossos, 43
Koh Phangan, 149–50
Koh Samui, 148–49
Koko the Gorilla, 60
Korean, 19, 85, 86
Krakatoa, 152, 153
Krishna, 130
Kurdish, 37
Language Extinction,
18, 25, 90, 113, 309
Lascaux, Caves of, 64
Latin, 24, 32, 36, 41, 48,
54, 56–57, 61, 65,
80, 163, 213, 258
Legong, 157
Lévi-Strauss, Claude,
224, 235–236, 261
Lhasa, 106, 107, 113,
114, 115, 116–22
Linear B, 43
Llama, 200, 203, 210,
212
Long Count, 253, 267
Lotus, 43, 127–28
Machu Picchu, 194,
96, 198, 200, 202,
205–08
Mackenzie River, 302
Madrid, 66, 71, 257
Magellan, Ferdinand, 75
Malaria, 223, 233
Malay, 19, 171
Malaysia, 19, 153, 154
Mallory, George, 109
Mandarin, 40, 56, 102,
214, 309, 326, 328
Manhattan Project,
165, 320
Manioc, 224, 229, 230,
32
Mao Zedong, 99, 106,
122, 126
Maori, 172, 184–185
Masset, 279
Matador, 67–69
Matala, 44
Mayan, 246–60, 265–68
Mead, Margaret, 188–
89, 192, 261
Medicine, 46, 163, 195,
219, 222–23, 306
Mediterranean Sea,
73, 75
Meguinis, Helen, 305,
316
Mekong River, 140
Melanesian, 186, 190
Metaphor, 16, 20, 66,
68, 69, 110, 128,
131, 200, 213, 251,
256, 260, 323
Métis, 282, 311
Mexico, 257, 266
Michelangelo, 57–60
Middle East, 13, 28,
48, 80
Mi’kmaq, 278
Milky Way, 131, 250
Mitchell, Joni, 44
Mohawk, 282, 283
Money, 13, 210
Mongol, 86
Mongolia, 103, 110,
330–31
Monkeys, 74, 152–53,
216, 226, 248, 259,
262, 264
Moon, 46, 57, 89, 106,
150, 157, 203, 204,
210
Moors, 69
Morocco, 18, 73, 75–76
Muhammad, Prophet,
14, 18, 22, 333–34
Muhammad Ahmed
el-Hamed, 26
Muslim, 11, 16–17, 19,
27, 80, 87, 333
Mussolini, Benito, 54
Myth, 218, 223, 236–37
Na-Dene, 286
Naga, 127, 131, 132,
138, 142
Navajo, 310, 315–23
Neanderthal, 74–75
Neolithic, 64
Nepal, 97–101
New Guinea, 153, 154,
190, 308
New Hebrides, 186
New Mexico, 303, 317,
318
New Zealand, 124, 172,
179, 181, 183, 185
Nigeria, 39–40
Nile River, 45, 326
Nootka, 288
Norgay, Tenzing, 98
Northern Dene (see
also Dene), 305,
313, 315, 319
Northwest Territories,
302
Norwegian, 33, 101, 114
Nouns, 300
Nuer, 326
Odysseus, 41–43
Odyssey, The, 41–43
Oia, 46
Ojibwa, 278, 306, 310
Onomatopoeia, 228
Oppenheimer, Robert,
320
Oracle, 31, 35–36, 45, 51
Orion, 238
Osaka, 164
Ottoman Empire, 79
Outrigger, 171
Pakistan, 19, 37, 329, 333
Palestinian, 14, 21
Panchen Lama, 111–14
Pashtu, 326, 328, 329
Past Participle, 327–28
Past Tense, 16, 238,
323, 327, 328
Patras, 51
Persia, 35, 37, 86, 326
Peru, 193, 196, 210,
212, 216
Petroglyphs, 319
Phnom Penh, 125,
140–43, 329
Phoenicians, 75
Pidgin, 28, 246–47
Piraeus, 48
Plato, 50
Pleiades, 56, 203, 238
Poland, 38
Polish, 194
Polo, Marco, 85–86, 89
Polynesian, 190, 214,
244
Popol Vuh, 258–60
Portuguese, 33, 61, 156
Postmodern, 289, 336
Post-Structuralism,
276, 281–82
Potala Palace, 116, 118,
120
Potlatch, 285, 286–88,
289
Powwow, 278, 305–06,
310, 314
Pragmatics, 147–48,
156, 161, 164
Prayer Flags, 106,
110–11, 118
Prefix, 258, 266
Pronouns, 147, 156
Provençal, 61
Pueblos, 303
Puma, 199, 202
Punjab, 325
Punjabi, 37, 328
Pyramids, 206, 254, 312
Quebec, 34, 47, 93, 284
Quechua, 194, 197,
199, 200, 203, 208,
209, 211
Queen Charlotte
Islands (see also
Haida Gwaii),
270, 282, 284
Quipos, 201
Quito, 215, 216
Quran, 17, 18, 19
Rarotonga, 182–85
Red Cod People (see
also Ganxiid
Haida), 273, 279,
280
Red Square, 255
Reid, Bill, 292, 293
Reincarnation, 103,
112–13
Renaissance, 57
Rice, 134, 137, 152,
154, 155–56
Rio de Janeiro, 212
Rocky
Mountains, 295,
305, 312, 318
Romanian, 61
Rome, 53–55, 60, 127,
254
Rose Harbour, 270
Rosetta Stone, 44–45,
257
Russian, 121, 141, 309,
331
S-21, 142
Salmon, 37, 282, 284
Samoa, 172, 187–89
San Sebastian, 62, 64
Sanook, 146, 149
Sanskrit, 36–37, 103,
108, 115, 124, 127,
136, 154
Santa Fe, 318, 320–21
Santorini, 46
Sanur, 154
Sapir, Edward, 307, 309
Sapir-Whorf
Hypothesis, 177,
307–09, 318
Saussure, Ferdinand,
178
Scheherazade, 144
Scottish, 163
Second World War, 73,
149, 188, 311, 320
Semana Grande, 62
Semiotic Systems,
60–61, 90, 177–78,
267, 282, 309, 322
Seville, 69–70
SGaang Gwaii, 271–72,
279–80
SGaang Gwaii Ilaana,
272–73
Shakespeare, William,
19, 41
Sharks, 244–46, 325
Shiva, 132
Shuar, 218
Siem Reap, 123–24
Silk Road, 85–86, 89
Skedans, Chief, 285,
287, 289
Skidegate, 279–81, 285,
292–93
Skidegate Inlet, 282, 290
Sky Burial, 104
Slavey, 302–03
Slavic, 24
Smallpox, 276, 279
Snow, 109, 155, 193,
200, 270, 295–
302, 307, 316, 322,
325, 330
Soccer, 14, 225, 297,
328, 335
Social Constructions,
197, 313
Socrates, 50–51
Soul, 13, 24, 98, 103–
05, 110, 126, 137,
144, 166, 185, 205,
209, 227, 234–35,
255, 264, 275, 279,
314, 321
South Africa, 66
South America, 71, 207,
243, 253, 291, 317
Southern Cross, 170,
171, 189, 192, 203
Spain, 62–72, 74, 90,
96, 211
Spanish, 33, 56, 61, 68,
70, 156, 194, 200,
209, 213, 217, 223,
225, 228, 231, 232,
246, 258, 267,
309, 317
St. Peter’s Basilica, 127
Stars, 29, 44, 52, 53,
57, 131, 150, 169,
170, 171, 180, 189,
190, 191–92, 203,
208, 216, 218, 238,
239, 248, 250, 252,
264, 324
Stevens, Cat, 44
Stone Age, 249
Stonehenge, 312
Stoney, 305, 312
Structuralism, 260
Sudan, 325, 326
Suffix, 61, 85, 171, 173,
98, 258, 30
Suixi, 326
Sultan, 79, 83
Sultanahmet, 80, 83
Sun Gate, 206
Sunsets, 34, 46–47, 129
Swahili, 19
Sweden, 288
Syllables, 14, 85, 201,
258, 330
Symbols, 60–61, 69,
139, 174, 177–78,
185–86, 197, 200,
203, 212, 257, 260,
267, 274, 278, 282,
289, 309
Tahiti, 169–74, 176,
78–83, 189
Tao, 323
Tashilhunpo, 111–13
Tattoo, 150, 172–74,
176, 178, 244
Tel Aviv, 12, 13
Thai, 126, 137, 146,
147–48, 156
Thailand, 145–51
Thamel, 98, 100
Thera, 46
Thessaloniki, 38
Thoreau, Henry David,
105
Tiananmen Square, 86,
122
Tibet, 98, 100, 101–22
Tibetan, 40, 102, 103,
105, 107, 109, 110
Tibetan Book of the
Dead, 103, 113,
114–16
Tikal, 254–56, 265
Titicaca, Lake, 211
Tlingit, 286
Tonle Sap, 139–40
Topkapi, 79, 83
Tourists, 39, 40, 46,
9, 54, 64, 74, 88,
95, 98, 100, 104,
120, 128, 144, 152,
158, 160, 172, 190,
209–11, 270, 289
Tower of Babel, 17,
18, 25, 29, 33, 62,
259, 336
Troy, 41–42, 52
Truman, Harry, 164–66
Tsuu T’ina, 305, 309–16,
319, 321
Tufa, 87, 92, 94
Tunisia, 44
Turkey, 38, 79–96
Turkish, 85–86, 87, 88,
89, 93, 171, 277
Turkish Bath, 83–85
Turkish Carpets, 81–82
Turtle, 130–31, 172–73,
176, 179, 267, 319
Tuscan, 57, 61
Ubud, 152
United Nations, 23, 24,
26, 271
United States, 71, 164,
166, 310, 317
Uralic, 40, 85
Urdu, 19, 37
Uros, 211–12
Utah, 317
Uzbek, 85
Vanuatu, 186
Vasuki, 132, 138, 142
Venus, 248, 257, 179–
80, 210
Verbs, 16, 247, 300, 326
Veronica, Mount, 193
Via Dolorosa, 26, 69
Vietnam, 125–26, 129,
136, 140, 326, 330
Vietnamese, 137
Vishnu, 127, 130–32
Volcano, 151, 171, 215
Wailing Wall, 23
Weinreich, Max, 40
Whorf, Benjamin, 307,
317, 321
Wind Horses, 110–11,
116
Windtalker, 320–21
Xcaret, 266
Xibalba, 251–52, 255,
266
Yangtze River, 117
Yiddish, 23–24, 37
Yucatán, 243, 248, 257,
266
Zero, 248, 259
!Kung, 40, 267
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