A former member of the Casa de Velázquez, Perig Pitrou is a research director at the CNRS, within the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale du Collège de France, where he leads the “Anthropology of life” team. He is conducting a long-term ethnographic study among the Amerindian populations of Oaxaca (Mexico) to study the theories of life that prevail in this region of the world. The results of this work are presented in Le chemin et le champ and in the collective works La noción de vida en Mesoamérica and Montrer/Cocculter. As part of the programs he has directed – “Des êtres vivants et des artefacts” (Fondation Fyssen), the CNRS-PSL incubator, “Domestication et fabrication du vivant” and “La vie à l’œuvre” (PSL) – he has published several dozen articles and the special issue on biotechnologies. In 2016, he received the CNRS bronze medal for his research in the field of anthropology of life.