ABSTRACT
This chapter explores three approaches that the author discerns in studies of healing in the Barquinha. In the city of Rio Branco, nestled in the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon, there thrives a religion called Barquinha, founded in 1945. Studies of healing in the several ayahuasca religions regularly place central attention on the therapeutic transformations effected from the consumption of ayahuasca. The chapter explores that healing is offered to the general public as part of the mission's commitment to charity. Exorcisms illustratively condense many of the salient motifs of Barquinha understandings about healing, and are rites in which the subjective experience of those clients who voluntarily consume Daime may not be central to the episode. The chapter presents the events occur in the Casa Santa. It concludes the presentation of the Obras de Caridade ritual and healing genres.
