01294nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001600043245009100059856006600150300001600216490000700232520089500239022001401134       2011                            d1 aIsto Huvila00aThe politics of boundary objects: hegemonic interventions and the making of a document  uhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21639/abstract  a2528–25390 v623 aBoundary objects are artifacts that reside in the interface between communities and are capable of bridging assumed and experienced differences. Bridging is not, however, necessarily a neutral or a consensual activity. With an emphasis on documents, the present article discusses the politics of boundary objects by analyzing the role of archaeological reports at boundaries between communities with conflicting interests. The analysis demonstrates and discusses the political and purposeful nature of boundary objects—how they are devices for creating and maintaining hegemonies within communities and achieving authority over other intersecting groups of people. The study uses the notion of hegemony and the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe (2001) to conceptualize the role of boundary objects as articulations of power and to explicate the dynamics of how the power is exercised.  a1532-2890