2014-07-292010-05-252009-07-05ALVES, Telma Antonia Rodrigues. Tocantins: narratives about the sertao. 2009. 184 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Humanas) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2009.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1631The work has as main objective understand, from a town of the State of Tocantins called Duro, current city of Dianópolis, the construction of arrangements of visibility and denial of the sertão. The Duro and its surroundings are considered in the literature and regional history as deep sertão as a place of difficult access, hidden, poor transport and communication, low population, privileged place for fugitives, the scene of violence and traditional social relations. Through reinterpretation of local literature and empirical research this work seeks to understand the strategies by which the State of Tocantins and the city of Duro are deleting the designation of sertão through strategies of modernizationapplication/pdfAcesso AbertoSertão profundo, Duro, Dianópolis, Tocantins, modernização, negação, relações sociais tradicionaisDeep Sertão, Duro, Dianópolis, Tocantins, modernization, refusing, traditional social relantionshipCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIADissertação