Understanding Cultural Practices: A Cultural Relativist Perspective

Explain three cultural practices to someone who has not encountered these cultures before. How would you explain these cultural practices from a cultural relativist perspective?
Provide (1) a detailed description and analysis of each selected case (How is this practice meaningful to the culture?)  
(2) explain the difference between an ethnocentric and a cultural relativist perspective.
Cultural practice #1: Young girls force fed in Mauritania 

Cultural practice #2: when brothers share a wife  
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Cultural practice #3: Divorce Iranian style: 

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