Violence and vigilance in Nahua communities of seventeenth-century central Mexico

Turning Big Brother upside down: Revisiting surveillance from Latin America

“…5 5 Richard Conway (2017) finds a different form of surveillance, “community vigilance,” among the Nahuas in colonial Mexico. As he explains, Indigenous communities had their own “informal policing” as a mechanism to bring stability to its members as well as to resolve disputes outside the realm of the legal system when this is not available. …”