Drawing on the articles in this forum, the essay considers continuities in the relation of raiding to regional reordering and reflects on capture as a sociolegal phenomenon. It comments on three dimensions of capture: the moment of capture, the transformation of booty into property, and the wider legal and institutional context of capture, from protection arrangements to jurisdictional politics.
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