Eliade, M. (1957). The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. Trans. Willard R. Trask. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Eliade’s classic phenomenological account of how the sacred breaks into profane space to consecrate a fixed point around which community life organizes. The book supplies the theoretical vocabulary for reading the T-form coordination node (sacred site, marae, sacred grove, songline anchor) as the physical expression of a coordination logic centered on belonging, kinship, and reciprocal obligation.