Changing Burial Practices and Socio-Economic Effects in Tiv Society

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.

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Noah Lumun Abanyam, Ph.D., ist derzeit Dozent an der Fakultät für Soziologie der Taraba State University in Jalingo. Er stammt aus der Vandeikya Local Government Area im Bundesstaat Benue. Dr. Noah hat an der University of Calabar, der Benue State University Makurdi und der Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto studiert und ist seit mehr als 14 Jahren als Dozent tätig.