The information he gave me, together with the results of much subsequent conversation and reading, I now propose to present to the reader in my own words.
The peasant family of the old type is, as we have just seen, a kind of primitive association in which the members have nearly all things in common.

The village may be roughly described as a primitive association on a larger scale.
Between these two social units there are many points of analogy.

In both there are common interests and common responsibilities.

In both there is a principal personage, who is in a certain sense ruler within and representative as regards the outside world: in the one case called Khozain, or Head of the Household, and in the other Starosta, or Village Elder.

In both the authority of the ruler is limited: in the one case by the adult members of the family, and in the other by the Heads of Households.