Flats, (as a Christian theist), I'm quite interested to see where you're going with this. When you talk about "other forms of knowing" "beside reason", I'm wondering whether you could expand. For example, could it be said that your example on "tradition" might be a form of distilled community reasoning? Would you posit such a knowledge as being something separate from reason, or a different form of reason? Would you call the kind of discussion that we're having here an epistemological one? Is epistemology something that anthropologists are trained to think about (that sounds rude, but I just mean to ask whether epistemology is in an anthropologists's general syllabus)?

It's great to hear from an anthropologist on the subject. I'm not an analytical philosopher either, but I don't find that analytical philosophers hold a key to an entire sets of questions that might be wondered or asked about.