Naming, Identity, and Tourism

Naming Practices and Ethnic Identity in Tuva

Tourism versus Identity Globalization and Tradition

This article discusses the question of identity through the globalized emergence of tourism. Tourism is a result of an unavoidable cultural contact with positive and negative effects. A contact of two different identities, that of tourist and the host, can bring numerous changes to the local community, but can also affect the tourists’ interpretation of the destination. Here we can frequently e...

Cultural Heritage and Identity in the Contemporary Tourism Development

Culture and heritage have been increasingly recognised as means of sustainable social and economic development and an important element of tourist motivation. However, the recent development of cultural tourism indicates the problem of massification, offering conventional products based on serial reproductions of culture. Due to factors such as globalisation and the importance of cultural diver...

naming in the conduct of prophet muhammad (pbuh) and its role in building culture and identity

one of the fundamental policies of the prophet in the field of education and establishing an ideal society based on religious teachings is the issue of ‘naming’. in order to build culture and identity, along with the qur’anic commands, the messenger of allah aimed – in all relevant areas such as selecting beautiful names for children, refining and changing adults’ names, nicknaming, reforming a...

Naming and Identity in Epistemic Logics Part I: The Propositional Case

Modal epistemic logics for many agents often assume a xed one-to-one correspondence between agents and the names for agents that occur in the language. This assumption restricts the applicability of any logic because it prohibits, for instance, anonymous agents, agents with many names, named groups of agents, and relative (indexical) reference. Here we examine the principles involved in such ca...