The Onge (also Ongee) are one of the Andamaneseindigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, located in the Bay of Bengal. They were formerly distributed across Little Andaman Island and the nearby islets, with some territory and camps established on Rutland Island and the southern tip of South Andaman Island. However, with their numbers now substantially reduced in the aftermath of colonisation and settlement, the approximately 100 surviving members are confined to two reserve camps on Little Andaman. The Andamanese are a group of peoples, aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. ... The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition. ... Satellite photo of the Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. ... A map showing the location of the Bay of Bengal. ... Little Andaman is the fourth largest of the Andaman Islands with an area of 739 km², lying at the southern end of the archipelago. ... Rutland Island is an island located across the Macpherson Strait from Port Blair on South Andaman Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ... South Andaman Island is the southernmost island of Great Andaman and is home to the majority of the Andaman Islands population. ...
Walter J. Ong (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003) is an educator, academic, and linguist known for his work in Renaissance literary and intellectual history and in contemporary culture as well as for his more wide-ranging studies on the evolution of consciousness.
Ong earned a licentiate in philosophy and a licentiate in sacred theology from Saint Louis University.
Ong was elected president of the 30,000-member Modern Language Association of America (http://www.mla.org/) in 1978.
Ong's most important work is Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (1958), which is a pioneering work not only in the field known today as print culture but also in the field known today as cultural studies.
Ong's second most important work is The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History (1967), the expanded version of his 1964 Terry Lectures at Yale University, which is also pioneering work both in the field known today as cultural studies and in the field known today as media ecology.
Ong's account of visualist tendencies suggests that personalized ego consciousness is somewhat distanced from the archetypal level of the human psyche through visualist cultural conditioning and the development of a greater sense of inwardness.