Introduction : war times and forms of life
Belatedness : vision, writing, and the labor of time
Chronotope 1 : prefiguring shifting alliances-the sobel
War time rumors : Red Cross as rebel cross and other figures of the collective imagination
Chronotope 2 : numbers, examples, and exceptions
Hunters, warriors, and their technologies
Sitting on land : the political and symbolic economy of chieftancy in contemporary Sierra Leone
Refugees and diasporic publics : the territorial state reconfigured
Child soldiers and contested imaginary of community in post-conflict Sierra Leone
Forced marriage and sexual enslavement : debating consent, custom, and law at the special court for Sierra Leone
Inscriptions on the wall : Chinese material traces in Sierra Leone
Conclusion : surviving and moving on-ephemeral returns.