ABSTRACT
I am going to write about digging; real digging, into the soil, with a spade. What could bring us closer to the root than that? Excavating; reaching deeper but not too deep!; and with the lumps of soil bringing out small things, buried objects. I will treat digging as a dirty practice, in a literal sense, and later, as hard labor, to arrive at an understanding of how this practice and its object relate to the production of persons and their everyday worlds.
