“Acoustemology” conjoins the words “acoustic” and “epistemology” to refer to a sonic way of knowing and being in the world. The term was introduced by anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Steven Feld following his fieldwork among the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea. He sought to describe the highly developed practices of listening, hearing, and sounding that characterized Kaluli engagement with their rainforest environment. Feld also used the term “acoustemology” to expand upon existing vocabulary for the anthropological discussion of human engagement with sound. The term has been taken up by other anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, and researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds whose work contributes to what has become known as “sound studies,” and the term “acoustemology” has become a key word in the conceptual lexicon of contemporary research on auditory culture.