This book deals with various -indigenous- traditions of grammatical thought across the globe. Its main perspective is a cross-cultural sociolinguistic and anthropological linguistic account of -Indigenous Grammar-. The concept (relating to Bruno Liebich s term Einheimische Grammatik ) is taken in its widest sense here to account for a continua of forms and ways of language-oriented research, various degrees of systematic reflection on language structure and use, the culture-specific ingredients of different grammatical -schools-, linguistic and folk-linguistic speculation, language awareness,...