Traps connect not only predator and prey, but mind and materiality, technology and landscape, and infrastructure and ecology. Through them, bodies, knowledge practices, materials and environments are assembled in transformative encounters which, because of their lethal agency, have emotive and moral force. In this Introduction to the Special Issue, the authors explore the conceptual bridges and disciplinary admixtures invited by ethnographic attention to traps. They review a history of attention to traps, which is in the main a history of neglect and epistemological bias. As humble hunting technologies, traps have been secondary in status to the heroic chase, and the lifeways of trappers at the frontiers of empires have been neglected. Meanwhile traps have featured as archetypes and prototypes in evolutionist discourses focusing on technology, and human crafty intelligence in its invention and advancement. The authors trace these threads from the 19th century to contemporary anthropology and archaeology, and propose conceptual and practical lines for future analysis and research collaboration.

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陷阱的人类学：具体技术和理论接口

陷阱不仅将捕食者和猎物联系在一起，而且将思想和物质，技术和景观以及基础设施和生态联系起来。通过它们，身体，知识实践，材料和环境被组装成变革性的相遇，由于其致命的作用，它们具有情感和道德力量。在本期《特刊》中，作者探讨了人种学对陷阱的关注所邀请的概念桥梁和学科混合物。他们回顾了有关陷阱的历史，这主要是对忽视和认识论偏见的历史。作为卑鄙的狩猎技术，陷阱在英勇追逐中处于次要地位，而在帝国边界的陷阱者的生活则被忽略了。同时，陷阱在以技术为中心的进化论论述中被视为原型和原型，以及人类发明和发展的狡猾情报。作者追溯了从19世纪到当代人类学和考古学的这些线索，并提出了用于未来分析和研究合作的概念和实践思路。