Like many of his later works, the book explored the tension between the Lone Ranger individualist who occupies center stage in American myth and the communal interdependence that defines democracy in reality.
The story unwinds gracefully and with slow-building emotion in a tiny seaside village in remotest Peru, where, save for a few modern conveniences, people live much as they probably did decades earlier, pulling fish from the sea and bound by communal interdependence.
This is particularly so for women who adopt a relationship-centred approach to parenting health behaviours, such as interdependence and communal coping [ 42].
That interdependence and communal decision-making framed some women's inability to access care is clearly in discord with the emphasis on self-rule or independence in discussions around the idea of autonomy.
It is this sense of interdependence and communal decision-making that seem to explain why some women lose their autonomous decision-making power to other family and community members.
communal living; communalism". .
Although majority of participants agreed that interdependence and the communal system of decision-making were valuable and not necessarily bad, they observed that in the context of maternal health the process very often result in delays in seeking care.
Murray House has nine individual apartments with a large and bright communal space, designed to foster an atmosphere of interdependence that reduces the need for outside support and combats feelings of isolation.
The lack of changes in social support or self-efficacy as well as the lack of an association between these measures and changes in objective outcomes are disconnects, particularly because the intervention was grounded in social cognitive theory, 24 interdependence theory, 31 and the theory of communal coping.
Yet, it is also widely recognised that many pastoralist communities have multiple sources and manifestations of strength; they are often able to cope and adapt in the face of such adversity due to their local knowledge, mobility, interdependence and the existence of institutions to enable communal decision-making (López-i-Gelats et al. 2016; Barrow et al. 2007; Fratkin and Mearns 2003).
Making use of existing literature, Kelly's four principles (interdependence, cycling of resources, adaptation, succession) are analyzed at multiple ecological levels (personal, interpersonal, organizational, communal), highlighting implications for future research in this field.
