Graber / Wengrow 158: "[T]here turns out to be a profound formal similarity between the notion of private property and the notion of the sacred. Both are, essentially, structures of exclusion."
"Much of this is implicit--if never clearly stated or developed--in Emile Durkheim's classic definition of 'the sacred' as that which is 'set apart'"
"individual property rights are held, notionally at least, 'against the whole world'"