Name: Winnowing (en Inglés)
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Author: Suzanne Matson

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Duke University Press

Autor

Suzanne Matson

Colección

Practices

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

128

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

12.7x7 cm

ISBN13

9781478039181

Winnowing (en Inglés)

Suzanne Matson (Autor) · Duke University Press · Tapa Blanda

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In Winnowing, Suzanne Matson examines our personal, cultural, and environmental relationship with material objects. Matson alternates between reflective essays on the nature of ownership and her own “Winnowing Log,” a day-by-day account of her attempts to reduce the items in her home. Sorting through the emotional value of mementos, the gendered dimensions of housekeeping, and the environmental cost of both mass production and disposal, she physically, mentally, and spiritually lightens her life while reflecting on the tethers that make winnowing so hard. She compares ideas of material impermanence in Stoicism, Buddhism, and Christianity, acknowledging that total renunciation of things is beyond most people’s goals or abilities, but also that reducing what we own, carry, and tend can clear space for spiritual lightness, aesthetic pleasure, and freedom. Rather than a celebration or condemnation of material goods, Winnowing is a meditation on the personal and universal struggles and rewards of separating the chaff from the grain.

Alternating between reflective essays on the nature of ownership and the author’s own account of downsizing the number of items in her home, Winnowing looks at our personal, cultural, and environmental relationship with material objects in a consumerist age.