ABSTRACT
There is a fable told by a mountain people living in the ancient highlands of New Guinea about a race between a snake and a bird. It tells of a contest which decided if men would be like birds, and die, or be like snakes and shed their skin and have eternal life. Archaeologists for example use drones to make maps and so too do Indigenous and activist drone communities in Peru, Guyana, Panama, and Indonesia who use drones to peer on the forest and mining developments in their districts This chapter deals within an atmospheric anthropology which includes the atmosphere as a medium for epistemological projects and methodological experimentation, the ethnography of new technologies of the air by cultures of media production, and the ontological conception of these airborne technologies—elementally suspended extensions of bodies at the edge of the internet.
