Before the Bulldozer: The Nambiquara Indians and the World Bank
This is the tale of one anthropologist"s attempt to defend a small, traditional society from the onslaught of development in the form of a 1,000-mile highway in western Brazil, financed in part by the World Bank. Before The Bulldozer shows how bureaucratic processes that play themselves out in Washington can destroy vast tracts of fragile land and bring misery to thousands.