Justine Chambers, Pursuing Morality. Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar, NUS Press, ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series, 2024, 209 p.

Justine Chambers’ Pursuing Morality, alongside Stéphen Huard’s Calibrated Engagement (2024), stands as one of the rare, and likely one of the last field monographs for some time, given the inaccessibility of Myanmar since the regime of terror established by the Burmese junta in the wake of the February 2021 coup d’état—compounded by the earthquake of March 2025. While the Plong (Pwo) Karen of Hpa-An and its surrounding region are the focal point of analysis, the entire structure of the book ...