Her publications on Tibetan culture cover topics ranging from Tibetan opera performances, “A Day at the Tibetan Opera: Actualized Performance and Spectacular Discourse” (American Ethnologist 18, no. 4, 1991), to the recognition of reincarnate lamas, “Signs of Transition: On Interpreting Some Predictors of Sprul sku Rebirth,” in Buddhism Beyond the Monastery, eds. Sarah Jacoby and Antonio Terrone. She is currently completing a book entitled Refugee Souls: The Recognition of Reincarnate Lamas in Exile. Marcia has contributed an article to Issue 7.