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Music:

A Way of Life - Christoffer Moe Ditlevesen

Autonomy - Jakob Ahlbom

Desert after Storm - Johan Glossner

Flowers in the Mirror - Sayuri Hayashi Egnell

Holocene - Harbours and Oceans

Bach Cello Suite No. 2 iin D Minor, MWV 1008 II. Allemande - Laura Metcalf

Notice - Arden Forest

Rainfall Come - William Claeson

Sea Arc Eight - Franz Gordon

Sleep Well, Sleep Tight - Gabriel Lucas

Tea at Marlowe - Franz Gordon

The Crossing of Time - Gavin Luke

Wenn Wir in Höchsten Noten Sein - Traditional

Whenever You Leave - Anna Landstrom

Sources:

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“Unspeakable Rites: Cultural Reticence and the Cannibal Question, Claude Rawson

“Review: The Man Eating Myth,” by Ivan Brady

“Criminal Cannibalism: An Examination of Patterns and Styles,” Victor G. Petreca, Gary Brucato, Ann W. Burgess, Elisa Dixon

“Assessing the Calorific Significance of Episodes of Human Cannibalism in the Palaeolithic,” James Cole

“Eating Human Beings,” Mikel Burley

“Carib “Cannibalism”: A Study in Anthropological Stereotyping”, Richard B Moore

“The Most Influential Text on Cannibalism: An Analysis of William Arens’s The Man-Eating Myth,” Tim Seiter

“Neanderthal Cannibalism at Moula-Guercy, Aredeche, France,” A Defleur, et al

“Placentophagia in humans and nonhuman mammals: causes and consequences,” Mark B Kristal, et al

“Consumption of Maternal Placenta in Humans and Nonhuman Mammals: Beneficial and Adverse Effects,” Daniel Mota-Rojas et al

“A Literature Review on the Practice of Placentophagia,” Rachel Joseph et al

“Cannibalism,” S.H. Posinsky

“Thinking about Cannibalism,” Shirley Lindenbaum

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