Abstract Denmark is an example of a country where the idea of historical ethnic homogeneity stands strong. This article challenges this historical presentism: the scholarly and societal tendency to understand social phenomena within a limited contemporary framework, neglecting possible effects and similarities embedded in and established through human history. This will be done via an historical and ethnographic study of the Copenhagen neighbourhood of Nørrebro. The article underlines the ethnic heterogeneity of Danish history and further shows how combining historical and ethnographic methods in studying a neighbourhood can grant us important insights into the changing incorporation of immigrant groups and the changing meanings of ‘the immigrant’.

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超越方法论的呈现主义：1885-2010 年哥本哈根社区的例子

摘要 丹麦是一个历史民族同质思想根深蒂固的国家的例子。本文挑战了这种历史存在主义：学术和社会倾向于在有限的当代框架内理解社会现象，而忽略了嵌入和建立在人类历史中的可能影响和相似性。这将通过对哥本哈根 Nørrebro 街区的历史和人种学研究来完成。这篇文章强调了丹麦历史的种族异质性，并进一步展示了如何将历史和人种学方法结合起来研究邻里，可以让我们对移民群体不断变化的融合以及“移民”的含义不断变化提供重要的见解。