Changing Burial Practices and Socio-Economic Effects in Tiv Society

ISBN-13: 9786200081797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Noah Lumun Abanyam

Opis

The book Changing Burial Practices and Socio-Economic Effects in Tiv Society, provides a very rich and highly reliable body of data and/or reading material for development experts, policy makers, academics, researchers, administrators and other related local and international development partners on the negative consequences of exorbitant culture of burial practices that are causing poverty, hunger and the general underdevelopment in most Third World countries, especially the Tiv society of Nigeria. Religious leaders and traditional institutions are also exposed to conditions that needed to be watched closely in combating this social problem. The book offers a useful prescription on how to address this recent menace of extravagant and lavish burial practices in developing nations. The book is useful to Government of Third World countries and students in the social sciences as well as those interested in community development and other related disciplines and professions.

O autorze

Abanyam, Noah LumunNoah Lumun Abanyam, Ph.D is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Taraba State University, Jalingo. He hails from Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State. Dr. Noah Studied at the University of Calabar, Benue State University Makurdi and Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto and has since lectured for more than 14 years.