Água falada: histórias de vidas e histórias de águas

Abstract

This research point talking about representations from the Araguaia River, since the native population perspective which lives in Bico do Papagaio. Also residents in Assentamento Falcão located near Araguatins – TO. From that way it understands the feeling between these people and the river. Because of that, it work makes a link among an urban-industrial society and the electrical sense, and all of that, supply and energy policy, stay in this context. In a second place, at the possibility of building hydroelectrical plants of Santa Isabel and Maraba, the river came as a place of belonging, as acknowledged in the native life stories. At last it has a little approach about place categories, nature and landscape concept.