
Last Voices (English Edition)
Endangered Cultures of the World
Michael Runkel(Author)
Callwey (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 17. September 2026
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-3-7667-2907-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is more than a photographic volume-it is a quiet yet powerful appeal to recognise cultural diversity as a shared human heritage. Over more than three decades, renowned photographer Michael Runkel has visited communities on every continent whose ways of life are increasingly threatened by climate change, globalisation and land dispossession. His photographs portray people whose identities are inseparably linked to landscape, ritual and community-dignified, authentic and on equal terms.
Across generously designed chapters, a visual journey unfolds: from the rituals and communities of Africa to the nomads of the Siberian tundra, the body cultures of South and Southeast Asia, the celebrations of Oceania and the Indigenous peoples of South America.
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Language
English
Place of publication
München
Illustrations
250
ca. 250 Farbfotos
ISBN-13
978-3-7667-2907-1 (9783766729071)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Author
Michael Runkel is one of Germany's most renowned travel photographers and among the most widely travelled individuals in the world. As a photographer, author and speaker, he has visited all 193 UN member states and has been documenting indigenous cultures across all continents for more than three decades. His work is published internationally, and he has twice been ranked among the world's top five for the Travel Photographer of the Year award.