ABSTRACT

At midnight on Tuesday, 11 May 1965, in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, Basil Johnson, a European farmer who occupied Petronella farm, telephoned the British South Africa Police (BSAP) and reported that his brother, David Patrick Johnson, had gone missing that afternoon. The next morning, the BSAP-led search team assembled at the Johnson homestead and mounted an eight-hour ‘sweep search’ for the whereabouts of David, whose body was later located on a bushy hill some seven miles from the Johnson homestead. This was followed by a seven-day search for the person who killed David, and, upon his arrest and charge of murder, a nine-months legal battle that would finally be settled by the highest court of the land, the Appellant Division of the High Court of Rhodesia. Taking a microhistory approach, this article traces the story of an African hunting excursion that turned fatal to analyse contradictory Western and African game ownership and hunting philosophies. Simultaneously, this story is also a lens to view other facets of colonial encounters: race, class, justice, the meaning of colonial borders, and African agency.

摘要

1965 年 5 月 11 日星期二午夜，在津巴布韦奇平厄，占领 Petronella 农场的欧洲农民巴兹尔·约翰逊给英国南非警察 (BSAP) 打电话，报告说他的兄弟大卫·帕特里克·约翰逊当天下午失踪了。第二天早上，由 BSAP 领导的搜索小组聚集在约翰逊家园，对大卫的下落进行了八小时的“扫荡”，大卫的尸体后来被发现在距约翰逊家园约 7 英里的茂密山丘上。随后对杀害大卫的人进行了为期 7 天的搜查，并在他被捕并被控谋杀后进行了长达 9 个月的法律斗争，最终由该国最高法院上诉庭和解。罗得西亚高等法院。采取微观历史方法，本文追溯了一次致命的非洲狩猎之旅的故事，以分析相互矛盾的西方和非洲的狩猎所有权和狩猎哲学。同时，这个故事也是观察殖民遭遇其他方面的镜头：种族、阶级、正义、殖民边界的意义和非洲机构。