Books

• Marjorie Balzer. The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective. Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1999.

Edited books

• Marjorie Balzer, ed. Religion and Politics in the Russian Federation. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2006.
• Marjorie Balzer, ed. Shamanic Worlds . Armonk, NY: North Castle Books, 1996.
• Marjorie Balzer, ed. Culture Incarnate: Native Ethnography in Russia. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1995.
• Marjorie Balzer, ed. Russian Traditional Culture . Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1992.

Articles in journals

• Marjorie Balzer. "Whose Steeple is Higher? Religious Competition in Siberia." Religion, State and Society 33.1 (2005): 57-69.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Shamans Across Space, Time and Language Barriers." Shaman 10.1,2 (2002): 7-20 .
• Marjorie Balzer. "Healing Failed Faith? Contemporary Siberian Shamanism." Anthropology and Humanism 26.2 (2001): 134-149 .
• Marjorie Balzer. "Shamans in All Guises: Exploring Cultural Repression and Resilience in Siberia." Curare 22.2 (1999): 129-134.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Soviet Superpowers." Natural History 106.2 (1997): 40-41.
• Marjorie Balzer and Uliana Vinokurova . "Nationalism, Interethnic Relations and Federalism: The Case of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ." Europe-Asia Studies 48.1 (1996): 101-120 .
• Marjorie Balzer. "Flights of the Sacred: Symbolism and Theory in Siberian Shamanism." American Anthropologist 98.2 (1996): 305-318.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Changing Images of the Shaman: Folklore and Politics in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)." Shaman 4.1-2 (1996): 1-16.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Homelands, Leadership and Self Rule: Interethnic Relations in the Russian Federation North." Polar Geography 19.4 (1995): 284-305.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Shamanism and the Politics of Culture: An Anthropological View of the 1992 International Conference on Shamanism, Yakutsk, the Sakha Republic." Shamanism 1.2 (1993): 71-96.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Turmoil in the Russian mini-Empire." Perspective 2.3 (1992): 2-7.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Nationalism in the Soviet Union: One Anthropological View." Journal of Soviet Nationalities (1990): 4-32.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Behind Shamanism." Social Science and Medicine 24.12 (1987): 1085-1093.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Seeing Red." Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin 66.3 (1985): 8-10.
• Marjorie Balzer. "On the Scent of Gender Theory and Practice: Rejoinder to Child and Child." American Anthropologist 87 (1985): 128-130.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Ethnicity Without Power: The Siberian Khanty in Soviet Society." Slavic Review 42.3 (1983): 633-648.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Rituals of Gender Identity: Markers of Siberian Khanty Ethnicity, Status and Belief." American Anthropologist 83.4 (1981): 850-67.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Route to Eternity: Cultural Persistence and Change in Siberian Khanty Burial Ritual." Arctic Anthropology 17.1 (1980): 77-90.

Articles in books

• Marjorie Balzer. "Whose Homeland is it? Shifting Boundaries and Multiple Identities in the Russian Federation North." Properties of Culture-Culture as Property: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia. Ed. E. Kasten. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2004.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Social Medicine? Shamanic Movements in Siberia." Shamanism in Interdisciplinary Context. Ed. A. Leete and R. P. Firnhaber. Polsamaa, Estonia: Vali Press, 2004.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Recovery of Shamanic Knowledge in Siberia." Folk Healing. Ed. Noduc Thinh. Hanoi: Viet Nam Academy of Sciences, Institute of Folklore, 2004.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Hot and Cold: Interethnic Relations in Siberia." At the Risk of Being Heard: Indigenous Rights, Resources, and the Rhetoric of Respect. Ed. J. Levi and B. Dean. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan, 2003.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Legacies of Fear: Religious Repression and Resilience in Siberia." The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians. Ed. T. McIntyre, S. Krippner. Westport, London: Praeger, 2003.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Dynamic Ethnics: Socio-Religious Movements in Siberia." Extending the Borders of Russian History: Essays in honor of Alfred J. Rieber. Ed. M. Siefert. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Shamanic Communities in the Soviet North." Politik und Religion in der Sowjetunion 1917-1941. Ed. C. Gassenschmidt and R. Tuchtenhagen. Wiesbaden: Harrassovwitz Verlag, 2001.
• Marjorie Balzer, Nicholas Petro and Lawrence Robertson. "Culture and Identity." Fragmented Russia: Center-Regional-Local in the Russian Federation. Ed. Blair Ruble. Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Grenzuberschereitende Heilerin und Chirurgin [A Cutting-edge Healer and Surgeon]." Wanderer zwischen den welten. Ed. C. Gottschalk-Batschkus. Murnau: Reichert Verlag, 2000.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Culturology and Culture: New Ways to See Old Phenomena?." Problemy Regional’noi Kul’tury. Ed. B. Popov. Yakutsk: Yakutsk State University, 2000.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Dilemmas of Federalism in Siberia." Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled. Ed. M. A. Alexseev. New York: St. Martins, 1999.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Soul Searching: Xanty Identity in Historical Perspective." Siberie II: Histoire, Cultures, Litterature. Ed. Boris Chichlo. Paris: Institut d’Études Slaves, 1999.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Sovremennyi Sakha Shaman [A Modern Sakha Shaman]." Izbranniki Dukhov [Chosen By the Spirits]. Ed. V. I. Kharitonova. Moscow: Academy of Sciences, 1999.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Multiple Voices: Syncretizing Theories of Siberian Shamans and Anthropological Ancestors." What is a Shaman? . Ed. A. Schenk, C. Ratsch. Berlin: VWB, 1999.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Spirits Under Siege: Shamanic Communities of the Soviet North." State and Religion in the Soviet Union 1917-1941. Ed. C. Gassenschmidt, R. Tuchtenhagen. Munich: Peter, Lang, Verlag, 1998.
• Marjorie Balzer. "The Poetry of Shamanism." Poetry and Prophecy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Inspiration and Verbal Art. Ed. John Leavitt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1997.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Mezhetnicheskie otnosheniia i federalism na Severe" [Interethnic relations and federalism in the North] ." Tolerantnost’ i Soglasie. Ed. V.A. Tishkov. Moscow: RAN, 1997.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Shamans, Bear Festivals and Hermaphrodites: Gender Transformation in Siberia." Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures. Ed. Sabrina Ramet. London: Routledge, 1996.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Ot bubnov k skovorodam: povoroty sud’by shamanizma v istorii Sakha (Yakutov) [From Drums to Frying Pans: Reversals of fate for shamanism in Sakha (Yakut) history]." Shamanism i rannie religioznyi predstavleniia [Shamanism and early religious conceptions]. Ed. D.A. Funk. Moscow: Academy of Sciences, 1996.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Shamanism." The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Ed. David Levinson and Melvin Ember. Yale: HRAF, 1996.
• Marjorie Balzer. "A State within a State: The Sakha Republic (Yakutia)." Rediscovering Russia in Asia. Ed. S. Kotkin, D. Wolff. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1995.
• Marjorie Balzer. "From Ethnicity to Nationalism: Turmoil in the Russian mini-Empire." The Social Legacy of Communism. Ed. James Millar and Sharon Wolchik. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Khanty." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Ed. Paul Friedrich. Yale: HRAF, 1994.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Yakut." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Ed. Paul Friedrich. Yale: HRAF, 1994.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Siberian Russians." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Ed. Paul Friedrich. Yale: HRAF, 1994.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Two Urban Shamans: Unmasking Leadership in Fin-de-Soviet Siberia." Perilous States: Conversations amid Uncertain Transitions to the Next Century. Ed. George Marcus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
• Marjorie Balzer. "The Sakha of the Russian Federation." State of the Peoples. Ed. Marc Miller. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Dilemmas of the Spirit: Religion and Atheism in the Yakut-Sakha Republic." Religious Policy in the Soviet Union. Ed. Sabrina Ramet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Doctors or Deceivers? The Siberian Khanty Shaman and Soviet Medicine." The Anthropology of Medicine. Ed. Lola Romanucci_Ross, Daniel Moerman and Lawrence Tancredi. New York: Praeger/Bergin , 1983.
• Marjorie Balzer. "Siberia." In Guide to the Study of Soviet Nationalities. Ed. S. Horak. Littleton: Libraries Unltd., 1982.

Other

• "Federalism in Russia" The Putin Administration’s Policies: Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate Hearing July 18,2001.