Among the diversity of theoretical options applied to study life from an anthropological standpoint, we suggest that it is relevant to use the concepts and methods of the anthropology of technique. In addition to the issue of the relation between living beingsthat works on animism or multispecies ethnography aptly tacklewe suggest investigating life as a process of production and the many kinds of interweaving of vital and technical processes. The aim of this dossier is, then, to propose some examples of the insights that this global frameworkdealing with life as animation and as fabricationcan bring for the analysis of Pacific ethnographical materials.