Continuing the tradition of relative anonymity of authorship of the manuscript books, the earliest pages never, and later ones only seldom, revealed the author of the work.
In an effort to dispel the out-of-date idea that anonymity of authorship is an invariable characteristic of Indian art, the curators have identified by name all of the 40 painters whose work is gathered here.
As Harold Wilensky wrote in his classic work "Organizational Intelligence" (1967), "The more secrecy, the smaller the intelligent audience, the less systematic the distribution and indexing of research, the greater the anonymity of authorship, and the more intolerant the attitude toward deviant views".
For the music, however, anonymity was the rule; authorship was a subsidiary consideration.
Rather than be content to accept corporate anonymity, we will rediscover the value of authorship.
The values and ethical imperatives governing action and interactions were also made explicit; for example, arrangements around confidentiality, anonymity and dissemination were addressed, including expectations relating to authorship of published outputs.
I'm sure there are many more, maybe hiding in plain view — given the secrecy of the Japanese Internet and the anonymity that is part of the culture of cell-phone authorship, who can say that there are not boys out there writing as girls?
The Globe reported that a co-author on one paper, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that "Califf had been told to mask his authorship by the FDA".
"Authorship recognition can be a legitimate threat to privacy and anonymity," the researchers said in their presentation on Thursday.
But anonymity could also incite interest: Jonathan Swift constructed elaborate hoaxes, "more promotional than shy," to veil his authorship of "Gulliver's Travels," and the guessing game surrounding the true identity of Currer Bell, the professed author of "Jane Eyre," was such that, in its first year of publication, reviews outnumbered copies sold.
