"Structures of exclusion"

 
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'"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #property, #spirituality

> created September 19, 2024 at 12:11:36 PM


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