Title: Before the bulldozer
Description: This book is about 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 occur in Washington can destroy vast tracts of fragile land and bring misery to thousands.
Subjects: Government relations, Indians of South America, Nambicuara Indians, Social conditions, World Bank, New York Times reviewed
Places: Brazil
People: David Price (1940-)