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ambon
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ambon /am·bon/ (am´bon) the fibrocartilaginous ring forming the edge of the socket in which the head of a long bone is lodged.
ambon
the fibrocartilaginous edge of the socket in which the head of a long bone is lodged.


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Ambonese Christians were favoured during the colonial period, while Muslims were marginalized.
Dieter Bartels argues that the Ambonese responded to Europeans by absorbing elements of the newcomers' beliefs thought to confer access to sources of power previously unknown, eventually syncretising them into a system in which traditional elements were preserved.
As a field manual for south-central Seram fauna, its systematic presentation of Nuaulu and of Linnaean categories gives area researchers a headstart in developing their own work along these lines, although it might have been more useful with the addition of Ambonese Malay terms along with the Nuaulu and Linnaean nomenclatures.
 
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